Re: Serial Ports

[Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

Maneesh Bomb writes:
 > was not detected. External D-link 33.6Kbps modem was connected to COM2
 > port (ttyS1) I tried to test the modem using minicom but that too didn't
 > work - does it imply the serial ports are not working? The COM1 port where
 > mouse was connected was working fine in windoze. 
 > 
 > Where could the problem be?

	fire up minicom as root and try different devices for your
modem.  Check out the options and configure it.  try /dev/ttyS1 or
/dev/cua1 I believe RH5.2 used to use /dev/cua? for the serial
ports. Dont try /dev/modem since that is a soft link made to your
corresponding device.

prabhu

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