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

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