Re: too *many* ttyS's: annoying messages.

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Hendrik Boom(hendrik@pooq.com) is reported to have said:
> This seems to be the opposite problem to the one many of you
> are reporting.
> 
> Since replacing a motherboard, I started to get the message
>   ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
> frequently.  I'm getting so many of these on the text console
> that it's hard to see what I'm doing when running aptitude.
> 
> I googled.  This message seems to indicate that ttyS1 is not
> configured properly.  I checked with the shop that replaced my 
> motherboard.  It turns out I no longer *have* a second serial
> port,  so ttyS1 does not exist.  That's why it fails to respond 
> appropriately to its drivers!  Now how do I configure it out of
> existence?
> 
> I'm running a sarge system.  since last summer.  I've never
> reconfigured anything involving serial ports, so it is the
> way sarge set it up, except for occasional upgrades to keep
> it curent.
> 
> The cleanesty fix would probably to find out how to make sarge
> go through the hardware discovery it does at installation time,
> without actually doing a complete instsllation, but I'd be happy
> knowing what configuration file to edit how using emacs.

man setserial

WT
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