On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:34:06AM -0600, Harv Nelson wrote: > ibought a little pcmcia card which is supposed to add four serial ports to > my acer laptop. I'm hoping to control a radio and a GPS has anyone else > set up such a gizmo successfully? I'm running debian "etch" on thiis thing > if that matters. What is the maker, model and revision number of the adapter? > any real help, educated guesses, or even hair-brained ideas accepted and > appriciated. (I am expeirencing high levels of frustration at the > moment.:-). What does "lspci -v" say after you plugged-in the adapter? Do you hear any beeps? What do you get in the logs after you plug it in? Try something like this: - boot the machine, without the adapter - login as root - dmesg > /tmp/before - plug in the adapter - dmesg > /tmp/after - diff /tmp/before /tmp/after Are you running the stock kernel? florin -- If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061122/368dd8d8/attachment.pgp