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Re: Enabling Serial ports



Jacob S. said:
> Yikes... I didn't realize how inexperienced I was with using my serial
> ports in Linux until I started trying to play with a little Intrinsyc
> CerfCube here.
>
> Kernel 2.4.18 with the serial module compiled into the kernel.
> dmesg | less shows mention of /dev/ttyS02 and /dev/ttyS03 on irq 4 and 3,

when the kernel says ttyS02 it means ttyS2

not sure why it spits out 02 instead of 2, but /dev/ttyS2 is correct.

most systems only have 2 serial ports, /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. be sure
they are enabled in the BIOS as well.

nate





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