yeah i also tried plugging and unplugging all my ports from the motherboard a bunch of times.
anyone know where i can get a good I/O card cheap? and is it fairly easy to get linux to talk to a card with serial ports on it? (just a matter of messing with setserial right?) thanks, ~mark On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, C. Falconer wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
