[vox-tech] Serial on RedHat 9?
Mitch Patenaude
vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 3 Nov 2003 23:40:33 -0800
On Monday, Nov 3, 2003, at 23:24 US/Pacific, Ken Bloom wrote:
> check out your kernel configuration files (which list the options your
> kernel was compiled with) in /boot and look for CONFIG_SERIAL
I forgot that the config file was in /boot... CONFIG_SERIAL=y
So it should be in there..
> also, see whether your kernel is recognizing the serial port with
> dmesg|grep ttyS
No joy... this is beginning to sound like a PnP problem... I hate PnP,
and it's nonsensical for things like com ports.
> you also cut off /proc/ioports too early
I cut it off, but it's not there...
I'm gonna play with PnP settings in the BIOS, but last time I did that
I lost access under windows as well.
Thanks for the help.
-- Mitch