Well that's tell me what I need to know. The serial port is not found anywhere and no resources are allocated (goes without saying). So where the f is it! I'm thinking the way this laptops hardware/BIOS is setup, with the setting for the mouse, set to the PS2 port during the install of debian, the serial port was not found at install. Hmmm... 26 diskettes to install without knowing if it would work. Any other ideas folks? *********************************** [From: Karl Bongers ] /etc/init.d/gpm stop *Result* Stopping mouse interface server: gpm. /etc/init.d/gpm stop stty -F /dev/ttyS0 raw 1200 cat /dev/ttyS0 | od *Results* stty: /dev/ttyS0: input/output error stty: /dev/ttyS1: input/output error [From: Karl Bongers ] cat /proc/interrupts *Results* CPU0 0: 4644729 XT-PIC timer 1: 789 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 1929 XT-PIC xirc2ps_cs 8: 3 XT-PIC rtc 11: 4 XT-PIC i82365 13: 0 XT-PIC fpu 14: 92546 XT-PIC ide0 NMI: 0 *********************************** _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list