Can I change the COM number assignment for my Sealevel serial card?
There are only a few cases where you would want to change a COM number assignment. Your application only works at COM1 through COM4 and the Sealevel serial device you just installed comes in at COM5 or higher. Or, you just installed a multiport serial card and the COM numbers were not assigned consecutively. The ability to change the COM number assignments depends on which Windows operating system you are using. To complicate things further, a previously installed USB or PCMCIA device may not even be physically in the system when you attempt to make the change. Sealevel highly recommends using the installed COM numbers if at all possible. However, Sealevel offers a few solutions for changing COM number assignments depending on which operating system you are using. Older versions of Windows (95/98/ME) do not provide a way to change the COM number assignments. The Sealevel SeaCOM serial driver automatically installs the Port Manager utility and it can be found in the Start menu in the Se