RE: serial config

2000-06-19 Thread Mark A. Torrey Esq.
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,

RE: serial config

2000-06-19 Thread C. Falconer
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 nuke

Re: serial config

2000-06-18 Thread Mark A. Torrey Esq.
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Kent West wrote: > "I am alone in a world of weirdos." wrote: > > > 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

Re: serial config

2000-06-18 Thread Kent West
"I am alone in a world of weirdos." wrote: > 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