On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:56:19AM -0600, Jeff Adams wrote: > Greetings, > > I recently acquired an Ultra 5, on which I'm running Testing. Works > great for everything I've asked of it so far. Thanks to everyone putting > this distribution together. > > I'm now attempting to utilize the 9 pin serial port, but as far as I can > tell, the OS doesn't seem to see it, and I'm not sure how to tell if the > machine sees them. I've tried cat'ing all the ttySx devices, but all > claim something to the effect of "no such device" (don't have the exact > message at the moment, Sorry). However, I've used this technique > succesfully on my x86 machines, and even on an SS20 (also running Debian > :), so I'm somewhat befuddled as to what's going on. > > FWIW, I've compiled my own kernel from Linus' tree, but I don't recall > seeing an option to configure serial devices, as I'm used to seeing in > the x86 kernels. > > I'm hoping some gentle soul can provide some enlightenment as to which > devices the serial ports on an Ultra 5 usually reside at, anything I > need to check at the boot prom level to ensure they are enabled, or any > other bits of information that will help me find my serial ports.
Check dmesg output for the serial port information. It should be enabled with no problems. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
