[vox-tech] Serial on RedHat 9?

Mitch Patenaude vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:34:21 -0800


>> 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.

Turned out that the BIOS had it set to "Disabled", (though it still 
worked under XP.. go figure)  When I enable it, it works fine as 
/dev/ttyS0 (though it's still COM2 under XP strangely).

Thanks to everybody to helping and putting up with my cranky rantings,
   -- Mitch