[vox-tech] Serial on RedHat 9?

ME vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:40:18 -0800 (PST)


Mitch Patenaude said:
> I've got a generic, straight, generic RH 9.0 install on my IBM thinkpad
> T20, and it appears that it doesn't have serial drivers in the kernel
> by default, and I can't even figure out which drivers I should load.
>
> (lsmod doesn't show them... cat /proc/interrupts doesn't show irq 3 or
> 4 in use, /proc/ioports missing, etc)
>
> Can anybody point me in the right direction?  Please don't tell me that
> I need to do a kernel build just to get serial ports working?!

Assunibg serial as old serial, and not usb...

What are the results of this as root:
# modprobe serial
then, grep your logs for "ttyS"