Tom Horsley wrote:
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:48:21 -0700
Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This made me think the new
computer which has a serial port that is not working.
I could certainly be a busted serial port, but there are
billions of other possibilities as well (unfortunately :-).
Now I am sure it is there but not working it seems. I read the
proper voltages on the pins of the serial port, and the dmesg does find
a serial driver on the computer.
Did you install Xen on the system and are you running the
Xen kernel? I know that Xen likes to steal the serial port
even from the Dom0 for use as a console in the xen
microkernel.
No Xen here.
There could also be udev permission problems (though you
probably would have still seen something about ttyS* in
dmesg in that case). You might have to add your user to
group "uucp" to access the serial port.
Yes I did that months ago and it is still good.
If you have any of the various livecd distributions around,
you might try booting them to see if they can see a serial
port.
I will try my umbuntu cd later and see if it can use the the port.
I need to find anything else that uses the serial port.
Karl
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