Re: Serial port seemingly not working

[Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it>]

Hannuman Bull wrote:
> My next guess would be to reboot your computer and check that the serial 
> port is enabled in your bios.  While your in bios, note the port number 
> (0x03f8, 0x02f8, etc). The port number tells you which port is your 
> physical serial port.  If you had to enable the serial port in bios, 
> boot into debian and try the setserial command again.   If the serial 
> port didn't load automatically, you might have to manually edit the 
> autoserial.conf file (note the bit about  "dpkg --configure setserial" 
> at the top of the file).

Hannuman,
the serial is working since if I boot the same machine under XP, as 
stated in my OP, the GPS works fine.

Will boot XP and see which port/io it is.

Thanks again,
Bob

PS Nice beard you have :)

PPS Is your name derived from the Hindu god ?