Serial Port Bug?

[Karl Larsen]

Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     I have a software I like to use called gmfsk which uses the serial
>> port to turn on and off the transmitter in my radio. It worked fine on
>> my old computer. Now when I try to run gmfsk it puts up an error panel
>> that says "Not a serial or parallel port". This made me think the new
>> computer which has a serial port that is not working.
>>     
>
> Is the serial port enabled in the BIOS?  What does the command
> dmesg | grep ttyS
> give you? (upper case S).
>   
    Hi Lamar, I get nothing from dmesg | grep ttyS   and I even tried 
/dev/ttyS :-)

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