[GLLUG] ttyS0 trouble

[Basher584]

Does the BIOS set up for PnP?  Sometimes I have had weird resource problems when that was set to "yes" when I was in linux.  If setserial is coming up with "unknown", I would try to set it to a different IRQ/IOaddress.

Your getting a line like this in bootup correct?
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled

-Ben


On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 03:16:42PM -0500, steven collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 22:16, Sean wrote:
> > I guess we start with the basics:
> > Did you make sure the serial port is turned on in BIOS ?
> yeup.
> 
> > Do you have serial support in the kernel? 
> yeup
> 
> > Are you accessing the correct device? ie /dev/ttyS1 
> yeup. should be ttyS0
> 
> > Does the special file /dev/ttyS0 exist?
> yeup.
> 
> >  
> > Do the toughbooks share the serial port with the modem port? (dunno but it 
> > is fairly common..) That usually means the modem is /dev/ttyS0 
> well COM1 should be ttyS0, which is my serial port... or should be
> anyway. I'm really stuck as to what I should try next. I would just give
> up on it but I really need it to work. maybe I'll install another OS on
> the 2nd partition and see if it does the same thing.
> 
> -steven
>