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Re: Where are my serial ports?



On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:56:19AM -0600, Jeff Adams wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I recently acquired an Ultra 5, on which I'm running Testing. Works 
> great for everything I've asked of it so far. Thanks to everyone putting 
> this distribution together.
> 
> I'm now attempting to utilize the 9 pin serial port, but as far as I can 
> tell, the OS doesn't seem to see it, and I'm not sure how to tell if the 
> machine sees them. I've tried cat'ing all the ttySx devices, but all 
> claim something to the effect of "no such device" (don't have the exact 
> message at the moment, Sorry). However, I've used this technique 
> succesfully on my x86 machines, and even on an SS20 (also running Debian 
> :), so I'm somewhat befuddled as to what's going on.
> 
> FWIW, I've compiled my own kernel from  Linus' tree, but I don't recall 
> seeing an option to configure serial devices, as I'm used to seeing in 
> the x86 kernels.
> 
> I'm hoping some gentle soul can provide some enlightenment as to which 
> devices the serial ports on an Ultra 5 usually reside at, anything I 
> need to check at the boot prom level to ensure they are enabled, or any 
> other bits of information that will help me find my serial ports.

Check dmesg output for the serial port information. It should be enabled
with no problems.

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