I was fooling around and from Google it said to check /dev/port. So
I used the call which is like one I saw # dmesg | grep port and got this
below:
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a
report
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1000-0x107f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1080-0x10ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1400-0x147f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1480-0x14ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1800-0x187f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1880-0x18ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1d00-0x1d7f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1d80-0x1dff has been reserved
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please
boot with i8042.nopnp
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000:00:0b.1
hub 2-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
support DPO or FUA
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
support DPO or FUA
USB Mass Storage support registered.
parport_pc 00:08: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
support DPO or FUA
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
support DPO or FUA
[root@k5di dev]#
I put space around the serial port line. It says the driver is there
with 4 ports. But I have just one 9 pin serial port. It sure looks like
something is working?
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
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