Originally to: Lawson Whitney
* lawson_whitney's head hit the keyboard and wrote:
>> > That is one good reason they don't work.
>>
>>
>>
>> > mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64
>>
>> > mknod /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67
>>
>> Done that will reboot. I think my best option is to goto my hardware
> shop
>>
> You don't need to reboot, but you might want to change the group it
> belongs to and the permissions.
>> and get the second serial port cable and adaptor and disable the
> 16450
>> port.
>>
> What kind of IO hardware do you have on this box? 16450's are totally
> obsolete for seriaous comm work, but good enough for a generic mouse.
> One of the two I have has gone deaf, though. It'll pass a loopback
> test
> from the host side and can send but not receive. Not very useful for a
> mouse port.
>>
Turned out to be very simple in the end. The old adaptor that I have that
goes from the IO card to the back of the PC is not compatable with newer
IO cards. Got a new socket and ribbon and hey presto mouse :)
sean
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