Thanks to you I found the solution. My hard-disk has soffered some kind of a stroke and destroyed the /dev/ttyS* (and many others) files! I'll copy them from another very similar installation.
Vittorio Alle 05:32, marted� 11 gennaio 2005, Gabriel M. Beddingfield ha scritto: > Vittorio wrote: > > notebook connected to an external modem. Now it happens that while with > > kernel 2.4 I could see /dev/ttyS0 in /var/log/messages during the boot, > > with the new 2.6 kernel I can't see anything of the kind ..and of course, > > the modem too doesn't work. > > Hi, Vittorio! > > Your kernel settings look similar to mine... so I doubt that's the problem. > Would you please post the results to the following commands. These may > help to diagnose your problem. > > $ dmesg | grep -i seri > $ ls -ld /dev/ttyS* > $ ls -ld /dev/tts/* > > Also: > > Is your serial port a standard, built-in port? Or perhaps are you using > one of those USB-to-RS232 converters? Or even a PCMCIA modem? > > Peace, > Gabriel -- [email protected] mailing list
