I am running Fedora 5 on an MSI AMD socket 754 mainboard, and I want to
use Pikdev with a serial port microcontroller programmer. The problem
is that I cannot get the serial port to come alive. Below are the
rights properties, and I have added myself to the uucp and ls groups.
[stan@localhost ~]$ ls -l /dev/ttyS*
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Nov 7 14:18 /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Nov 7 14:18 /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 66 Nov 7 14:18 /dev/ttyS2
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 67 Nov 7 14:18 /dev/ttyS3
[stan@localhost ~]$
Pikdev has a debugging function to allow the operator to turn specific
pins on and off. There is no response to the serial port, and I have
tried all ports with all combinations of address/IRQ settings in the
BIOS. Turning parallel port pins on and off is a snap.
Anyone see what I have set up incorrectly? (By the way, I did check the
serial cable thoroughly for continuity, and the serial port is soldered
in as part of the motherboard to leave me no opportunity to have
forgotten to connect a cable.)
Thanks.
stan
