RE: serial config
yeah i also tried plugging and unplugging all my ports from the
motherboard a bunch of times.
anyone know where i can get a good I/O card cheap? and is it fairly easy
to get linux to talk to a card with serial ports on it? (just a matter of
messing with setserial right?)
thanks,
~mark
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, C. Falconer wrote:
> Two possibilities...
>
> 1) you plugged the serial header cables into the motherboard backward, or
> off-by-one, or you're using different ones from before which are wired
> differently.
>
> 2) shorting the motherboard to the case has fritzed the serial controller.
> Can you plug in an ISA IO card? I nuked the FDC on a P75 once - the only
> way to get a floppy was to install a MFM / FDC controller :)
> ----------
> From: I am alone in a world of weirdos.[SMTP:torreyma@cs.alfred.edu]
> Reply To: I am alone in a world of weirdos.
> Sent: Monday, 19 June 2000 4:36 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: serial config
>
>
> heya,
>
> i have a serial mouse which i am trying to get to talk to my debian
> system. thre isn't anything complicated about it, just a mouse on ttyS0.
>
> it used to work with the motherboard i am using, but i moved my system to
> a bigger case, and for various reasons when i did that i reinstalled the
> OS. since then it has not worked.
>
> its not just the mouse either, i try connecting my Palm III to ttyS1 and
> the palm claims i am trying to talk to a modem. needless to say the palm
> also used to work with this motherboard, and works on my ol' 486.
>
> my com ports are turned on in the bios, my /dev/ttyS* are all set to
> world rwx (i am not particularly concerned with security at the moment.)
> my serial.conf looks fine, and i am stumped.
>
> i edited the serial.conf in order to get my modem working on ttyS3, which
> it did. i have commented and commented that bunches of times, and even
> tried reinstalling the setserial package.
>
> when i first moved the motherboard to the new case i had some problems
> with the motherboard shorting out, but i have since insulated and fixed
> that and everything else except the com ports are working now.
>
> it seems like this is something stupid that has continued to slip past me,
> but i cannot figure it out.
> thanks,
> ~mark
>
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> This email is free email, and may be
> modified and/or distributed under the
> terms of the GNU General Public
> License available at:
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
>
> Copyright (C) 2000 Mark A. Torrey Esq.
> email: torreyma@screech.alfred.edu
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org <
> /dev/null
>
>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
>
Reply to: