> On Sunday 08 July 2001 11:33 pm, Mike Andrew wrote:
> > On Monday 09 July 2001 08:06, Richard Thompson wrote:
> > > ... have you used "setserial" to check whether or not your
> > > various distros have correctly initialized the serial port - with
> > > particular attention to the UART?
> >
> > oooh, you are very right.
> >
> > On a col distro, /etc/init.d/rc.serial is disabled and does
> > nothing. Perhaps SuSe work this differently? (rc.serial
> > incidentally is a throwback script to the old stallion and other
> > multi uart cards we used to use, when the world was young and rosy)
>
>
Well, this looks like it! I had the right port and IRQ but the wrong
UART selected in the manual configuration section of
/etc/init.d/serial. Things now seem to be ripping right along (as
'ripping' as my modem ever seems to get).
Thanks to EVERYONE that gave suggestions; they were really great! ALL
of the suggestions gave me some useful info about how the thing works!
How much better could a users list possibly be??
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Tony Alfrey
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