Two possibilities... 1) you plugged the serial header cables into the motherboard backward, or off-by-one, or you're using different ones from before which are wired differently.
2) shorting the motherboard to the case has fritzed the serial controller. Can you plug in an ISA IO card? I nuked the FDC on a P75 once - the only way to get a floppy was to install a MFM / FDC controller :) ---------- From: I am alone in a world of weirdos.[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: I am alone in a world of weirdos. Sent: Monday, 19 June 2000 4:36 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: serial config heya, i have a serial mouse which i am trying to get to talk to my debian system. thre isn't anything complicated about it, just a mouse on ttyS0. it used to work with the motherboard i am using, but i moved my system to a bigger case, and for various reasons when i did that i reinstalled the OS. since then it has not worked. its not just the mouse either, i try connecting my Palm III to ttyS1 and the palm claims i am trying to talk to a modem. needless to say the palm also used to work with this motherboard, and works on my ol' 486. my com ports are turned on in the bios, my /dev/ttyS* are all set to world rwx (i am not particularly concerned with security at the moment.) my serial.conf looks fine, and i am stumped. i edited the serial.conf in order to get my modem working on ttyS3, which it did. i have commented and commented that bunches of times, and even tried reinstalling the setserial package. when i first moved the motherboard to the new case i had some problems with the motherboard shorting out, but i have since insulated and fixed that and everything else except the com ports are working now. it seems like this is something stupid that has continued to slip past me, but i cannot figure it out. thanks, ~mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This email is free email, and may be modified and/or distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License available at: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Copyright (C) 2000 Mark A. Torrey Esq. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
