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Re: serial ports not working



On  15 Mar, this message from Ron Farrer echoed through cyberspace:
> My PM9600s serial ports are detected at boot time by the kernel as
> ttyS00 and ttyS01. However these devices don't exist in /dev (maybe I
> just need to create them?)

/dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1

> If I type something like "echo test >
> /dev/ttyS1" the printer status light will blink but nothing ever gets
> printed. Anyone know what I need to do here?

What type of printer is that? If it's localtalk, it won't work in Linux.

Cheers

Michel

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