But no IRQ is allocated. I'll boot with a DOS disk, (tools I know well) *********** I didn't have COM1 under msd.exe I sort of hate when one setting in a BIOS can effect another and I don't think about it long enough. I checked the power settings in BIOS serial was "Disabled" one would think that would mean "don't turn the power off on the COM port" I "Enabled" it and restarted. COM1 is now found by msd.exe *********** stty -F /dev/ttyS0 raw 1200 cat /dev/ttyS0 | od now returns 9 colums of 6 digits scrolling. Moving the mouse does nothing. dmesg | grep tty returns ttyS00 at ox03f8 (irq = 4) is at 16450 Sam. Scot Jenkins wrote: >try Karl's trick on the other com ports as well (/dev/ttyS1, >/dev/ttyS2, etc...) I have an couple Gateway machines that the BIOS >does strange numbering of COM ports. Instead of COM1 and COM2 they're >COM2 and COM3. Especially with a laptop, who knows what the >manufacturer was thinking that day. > >see what ports the kernel detects right after bootup: > > dmesg | grep tty > >you should see something like: > > ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > >I don't think that your debian install will do evil things like renumber >or hide com ports from you. > >Sam MacDonald wrote: > > >>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 > > > _______________________________________________ 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