Serial Port Bug?
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Tue Nov 27 22:34:36 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 15:05 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Albert Graham wrote:
> > Karl Larsen wrote:
> >> 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 :-)
> >>
> > Try: dmesg|grep -i serial
> >
> > Also, I think the driver supports 4 ports rather than saying you have
> > 4 ports, as the chances are you only have 2 (one internal + one
> > external).
> >
> > Al.
> >
> Well that gets nothing. And I have only one serial plug on the
> computer. Not sure why grep missed it...
>
> Yes this worked:
>
> [root at k5di ~]# dmesg | grep Serial
> Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> [root at k5di ~]#
>
> It took a capital S in Serial :-)
When in doubt, "grep -i" ignores case in matches. "dmesg | grep -i
serial" would've caught it.
"man" is your friend.
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