On Tuesday 06 July 2004 08:31 am, nut megger wrote: > Story: continued three month long serial device saga. > > Problem: cannot use external modem on serial port on > ThinkPad X21 Ultrabay > > Latest attempts (using Fedora Core 2, Mandrake 10.0, > Mandrake 9.1, SuSe 9.1): > > 1. BIOS: serial port enabled > > dmesg | grep tty recognizes ttyS0 at I/O 0x3F8 (IRQ=4) > is a 16850A > > minicom cannot see modem on ttyS0 (no error message, > no nothing, echo on) > > 2. BIOS: serial port moved to 2E8 IRQ3 > > dmesg | grep tty recognizes ttyS3 at I/O 0x2E8 (IRQ=3) > is a 16850A > > minicom cannot see modem on ttyS3 (no error message, > no nothing, echo on) > > Conclusion: still cannot use Linux to access external > modem on serial port of ThinkPad X21 UltraBay > > Aside: I�m getting real good at loading different > Linux distributions from scratch (fedora core 2 is the > easiest and quickest) > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail If I recall correctly IRQ 3 should be ttyS2. ttyS0 is IRQ 1, ttyS1 is IRQ 2 etc. HTH -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842
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