Re: Serial port seemingly not working

[Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it>]

Bob Alexander wrote:
> Hannuman Bull wrote:
>
> > My next guess would be to reboot your computer and check that the 
> > serial port is enabled in your bios.  While your in bios, note the 
> > port number (0x03f8, 0x02f8, etc). The port number tells you which 
> > port is your physical serial port.  If you had to enable the serial 
> > port in bios, boot into debian and try the setserial command again.   
> > If the serial port didn't load automatically, you might have to 
> > manually edit the autoserial.conf file (note the bit about  "dpkg 
> > --configure setserial" at the top of the file).

Under XP the serial appears as COM1 attached to a 82801DBM LPC 
controller at 03F8 IRQ 4

which seems to match my autoserial.conf

/dev/ttyS0 uart 16550A port 0x03f8 irq 4 baud_base 115200 spd_normal 
skip_test

If of any value here is
bob@t40:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:    1628396          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       4461          XT-PIC  i8042
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  8:         27          XT-PIC  rtc
  9:        535          XT-PIC  acpi
 11:     102158          XT-PIC  yenta, yenta, eth0, uhci_hcd, 
uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, ehci_hcd, Intel 82801DB-ICH4, radeon@PCI:1:0:0
 12:        158          XT-PIC  i8042
 14:      13652          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:      14363          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
ERR:          0