According to David Krings: While burning my CPU.
>
> Hi !
>
> Not exactly to this question, but why does everybody hate W9x so much ? I
> installed it years ago and it worked without any problem from second one on
> - i can't say that from Linux, there i was hitting more problems to get it
> at least to work and recognize that i have an uart 16550A chip in my puter.
> Maybe i'm unique with my (non)problems, hehehehe.
>
The kernel should see a 16550A on bootup, either you are not loading the
serial module or if seriel support is compiled into the kernel then you have
the ports set wrong, setserial -a /dev/ttySx will show whats configured.
'dmesg' should show what was found at bootime by the kernel.
If the system has been up and running for a few days, quite possably dmesg
will no longer show the boot messages as it is a ring buffer which is used
by the kernel for messages about things like mounting or unmounting devices,
however distro's like redhat save the boot dmesg to /var/log/dmesg.
If you have an extention board with extra commports then you will possably
need to create the devices in /dev/ for them.
'man MAKEDEV'
'man setserial'
> Greez
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> >Hey! Did you see what Austin G. Swinney wrote on Jun 3 ?
> >
> >AGS> Thanx! I added
> >AGS> alias dup='/sbin/ifup ppp0'
> >AGS> alias ddw='/sbin/ifdown ppp0'
> >AGS> to .bash in RH6.0. Then because it is an initialization file (I
> >AGS> guess), I rebooted and it worked.
> >
> > "AAARRRGGHHH" was my first response when I read this! Linux is
> >nothing like dildows 95, you _don't_ need to reboot every time you make a
> >change.
> >
> >In the case of changing the .bash you have a couple of options...
> >
> >1 - logout and then login again
> >
> >or an even better way...
> >
> >2 - type "source .bash" (without the "") that will re-read the file
> >
> >
> >Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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> >|There _IS_ an alternative! / /__ / // _ \/ // /\ \/ /|
> >| /____//_//_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\|
> >----------------------------------------------------------
> >Windows 98 has detected that the mouse has moved.
> >Please reboot for these changes to take affect.
> >
>
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Regards Richard.
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