Do a better grep of your dmesg, such as grep -i ttys or something -- you should see registration for all such ports, or look in the actual hard disk log files. I bet you have more than those 4 ports, if your card is working at all.
Rob Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason White [email protected] Wrote: > I would suggest looking at the boot messages to confirm that the card and > the > serial ports on it are detected. If you have another serial device (not a > braille display), you should test writing output to the ports, e.g., echo > some > text > /dev/ttyS0 (try several of the serial devices until you find the one > that matches the port). > Okay, here's what I did. > root@coffee-bean:~# dmesg | grep tty > [ 73.750291] usb 3-3: Keyspan 1 port adapter converter now attached > to ttyUSB0 > No reference to my serial card there at all. However it is still > listed under /dev, like so > root@coffee-bean:~# ls -l /dev | grep ttyS > crw-rw---T 1 root dialout 4, 64 Jun 24 21:49 ttyS0 > crw-rw---T 1 root dialout 4, 65 Jun 24 21:49 ttyS1 > crw-rw---T 1 root dialout 4, 66 Jun 24 21:49 ttyS2 > crw-rw---T 1 root dialout 4, 67 Jun 24 21:49 ttyS3 > And if I do this: > root@coffee-bean:~# setserial -g /dev/ttyS0 > /dev/ttyS0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 > root@coffee-bean:~# setserial -g /dev/ttyS1 > /dev/ttyS1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3 > root@coffee-bean:~# setserial -g /dev/ttyS2 > /dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4 > root@coffee-bean:~# setserial -g /dev/ttyS3 > /dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3 > Unfortunately, I don't know which manufacturer this card is from. I > found it in a box of misc stuff and I don't remember where I bought it > from to check order history. What else can I look at? > > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [email protected] _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
