Re: Never Ending Quest for Working PCMCIA Serial Port Dell Enspiron
2010/1/17 Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>:
> The laptop in question has a built-in dialup modem which
> doesn't even show up as a serial port in Linux. In the P.C.'s
> setup screen, it doesn't show up there so I can't remove or move
> it out of the way, but a PCMCIA card installed containing a real
> truly RS-232 port tries to come in as ttyS0. That internal modem
> is probably the reason why /dev/ttyS0 acts as it does. One can
> not send from it, but one can receive.
>
> Is there a way to fake out the system to make it assign
> /dev/ttyS1 to the PCMCIA port? That would probably make it work.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
You could have a look at doing it with udev
Regards
Dale
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