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.