Re: problem hooking laptop to serial port

[Jan Carlson <janc iname com>]

But why does your laptop have two serial ports?
It must be possible to use them, or they wouldn't supply them.


Laura Conrad wrote:

> James Ervin <james kites org> writes:
>
> > Well, If you have looked and you are sure that you can not enable the other
> > port in the BIOS (which may very well be) then just run one device at a
> > time on the port, or get a serial port expansion board (cheap for two more
> > ports).
>
> The one device at a time solution is fine for transferring files.
> However, it looks like my modem won't work when inittab is spawning
> the getty, so in order to use the terminal I have to change my
> system.  One of the things I was hoping to use the terminal for was
> finding out what's happening when my X freezes and locks up both the
> mouse and the keyboard.
>
>   I have an expansion board in one of my boxes and have four serial
> > ports and to printer ports.  Nice for hanging things off of the box.  They
> > are sometimes called IO cards and run about $15.00.  There are other
> > options, but don't give up on the bios, perhaps call the bios mnfgr.
>
> Short term, the expansion board sounds like the right answer -- I
> hadn't realized they were that cheap.  It would be virtuous to call
> the bios and the place that put the computer together to see what they
> were thinking when they did this, but I don't know whether I'm that
> virtuous.  The next thing on my list to be virtuous about is debugging
> my sendmail problem.  (Why I can send mail to everybody except other
> accounts at my isp, many of which exist because I recommended my isp
> to my friends...)
>
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