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