Hi Folks,
Well I disabled the onboard serial ports and installed a STB 4COM card. Well
the ports on the 4COM card work just fine. Go Figure! I'd still like to know
why the onboard ones won't.
Wilson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Masterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 2:04 PM
> To: Wilson G. Hein
> Subject: RE: Mainboard Serial Ports
>
>
> Sounds like you have an overlap with another serial port. Either
> something else is on that IRQ, or there is something else
> using the same
> IO port. Look in /proc/ioports to see if everything looks correct.
> I once had a "reserve" statement in lilo.conf which was
> hosing my port
> for com1.
>
> On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Wilson G. Hein wrote:
> > Hardware:mainboard:Tyan S1590S Trinity 100AT, Intel Pentium
> 233/MMX, 32 MB
> > SDRAM
> > Software:RedHat5.2:Kernel-2.0.36 recompiled with ax25,
> netrom, serial.
> > ax25-utils-2.1.42 from rpm.
> >
> > A Kantronics KPC4 is connected to serial port 1 on the
> mainboard. It all
> > used to work prior to upgrading to this mainboard.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > Is the TNC set to the correct terminal baud rate?
> >
> > Best of my knowledge
> >
> > I executed;
> >
> > /usr/sbin/mkiss -s 9600 /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ptyq0 /dev/ptyq1
> > /usr/sbin/kissattach -i 44.xx.xx.xx -m 512 /dev/ttyq0 1
> > /usr/sbin/kissattach -i 44.xx.xx.xx -m 512 /dev/ttyq1 2
> >
> > # /etc/ax25/axports
> > #
> > # The format of this file is:
> > #
> > # name callsign speed paclen window description
> > #
> > 1 WJ3G-9 9600 255 2 145.010 MHz (1200 bps)
> > 2 WJ3G-10 9600 255 2 145.670 MHz (1200 bps)
> >
> > everything looks good except no activity to and from tnc.
> >
> > Now just for fun I installed a modem on serial port 2. It
> also appears to
> > work, but It appears I can't send any commands to the modem
> from the minicom
> > console. Yet when launching minicom the terminal ready
> light comes on.
> >
> > Hope this answers some questions.
> >
> > Wilson
> >
> >
>
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