On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:29:39PM +0000, Albert Graham wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >Lamar Owen wrote:
> >>On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have a software I like to use called gmfsk which uses the serial
> >>>port to turn on and off the transmitter in my radio. It worked fine on
> >>>my old computer. Now when I try to run gmfsk it puts up an error panel
> >>>that says "Not a serial or parallel port". This made me think the new
> >>>computer which has a serial port that is not working.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Is the serial port enabled in the BIOS? What does the command
> >>dmesg | grep ttyS
> >>give you? (upper case S).
> >>
> > Hi Lamar, I get nothing from dmesg | grep ttyS and I even tried
> >/dev/ttyS :-)
> >
> Try: dmesg|grep -i serial
>
> Also, I think the driver supports 4 ports rather than saying you have 4
> ports, as the chances are you only have 2 (one internal + one external).
Karl, have you tried messing about with setserial (man setserial) to see
if it will report anything useful (or allow you to set up a port)?
Fred
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