On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 10:16:31PM -0400, Wilson G. Hein wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How does linux communicate with mainboard serial ports? Do I need to
> configure something before I can use the ax25 utils to a kiss tnc?
>
> The reason I ask is I have a reconfigured kernel and the utils. Mkiss and
> kissattach commands appeared to execute correctly. Ifconfig shows the
> network devices. Nothing shows on listen, and I'm unable to connect out. No
> activity at the tnc, etc.
What does 'cat ioports' say. Do the serial ports show up?
The mainboard serial ports operate just like those on a card. You may
have to go into the CMOS setup and set some parameters for them, like
port address/IRQ (typically the choices are [dos] com 1-4, IRQ 4/3)..
You should also probably designate those IRQ's as Legacy ISA, so pnp
won't mess with them. You may also need to run setserial.
Bob
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