Serial Port Bug?

[Albert Graham]

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.