Hopefully somebody here can give me some ideas. I've tried eMailing the kernel serial module maintainer (no response), and posting a bug report against setserial (but he has no experience with kernel V2.6 and would appreciate any advice too).
I've compiled kernel-image-2.6.0-test5 ok. And installed module-init-tools to get modules to work properly. Everything seems ok except for a missing serial module and setserial. During kernel V2.6 boot something causes modprobe to try to load a "serial" module which doesn't seem to exist in V2.6. AFAIK kernel 2.6 uses "8250-pci" and/or "8250-pnp" instead of "serial", although the help during "make menuconfig" does refer to what ends up as the "8250-pci" module as the "serial" module. In my case, the message "Modprobe: FATAL: Module serial not found" occurs during boot up 4x, one right after another. Later during boot the same error occurs a couple of times for each of ttyS0-ttyS1; these last errors disappear after removing /etc/init.d/setserial. Perhaps the first errors are related to mouse drivers (?) Anyway, after boot lsmod doesn't show any serial module loaded, either "serial" or "8250-pci". And "setserial /dev/ttys0" returns "/dev/ttyS0: No such device". However I can "modprobe 8250-pci" and the module 8250-pci and its dependencies will load and now "setserial /dev/ttys0" returns "/dev/ttyS0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4", as it should. And I get this in syslog: "Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ IRQ sharing disabled". No reports appear in ksymoops with Kernel V2.6. So I then used update-modules to create an "alias serial 8250-pci" line in /lib/modules/modprobe.conf. I also linked the /etc/modutils/setserial file over to /etc/modprobe.d before running update-modules. This adds these lines into /lib/modules/modprobe.conf: alias /dev/tts serial alias /dev/tts/0 serial alias /dev/tts/1 serial alias /dev/tts/2 serial alias /dev/tts/3 serial But certain commands like /etc/modutil/setserial's "post-install" or "pre-install" (and "probe" as well) generate errors with the new kernel's modprobe. So I disabled these. Afterwards I still get "Modprobe: FATAL: Module serial not found" during boot. But "modprobe serial" from the command line now works fine. Help? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
