Re: Serial Port problem on Ultra 2....

[mark acierno <acierno@pocketdvm.com>]

I attempted to reconfigure (dpkg-reconfigure) setserial but no matter what I 
selected, I get the same error

dpmod: *** unresolved symboles in lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/fs/binfmt_elf.o

anyone have thoughts?

mark




On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 2:10:05 -0400, mark acierno wrote
(in message <2IdUV-5W5-1@gated-at.bofh.it>):

> I had a disasterous attempt at updating my SUN Ultra 2 to Sarge and thought 
> I 
> would attempt a clean install of  3.0 which was running nicely on my system 
> up until a few days ago. I installed the os(3.0)  with little problem - only 
> now I cannot access the serial ports. If I run setserial it shows me that 
> the 
> uart is unknown, port is 0x f1100004, IRQ 7040000
> if I attempt an autoconfig (in root) I get the error "Cannot set serial 
> information : Invalid argument" . As a matter of fact ANY attempt to modify 
> the ports is greeted by a similar error.  Could someone point me as to where 
> to look next for the source of my problem - and how to fix this
> 
> 
> thanx everyone !
> 
> mark