Serial Port Bug?
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Tue Nov 27 23:37:25 UTC 2007
Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:48:21 -0700
> Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> 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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