On Saturday 07 December 2002 09:11 am, ET wrote: > more info needed... you may need to install kudzu, and have harddrake and > kudzu run at bootup.... > Let me try again to be more specific. If I have a brand new computer and I have 2 serial ports, along with SCSI, IDE, USB etc, I would expect when I install mandrake 9.0 on it, I would see a /dev/sst0, for serial port 1 and /dev/sst1 for serial port 2. Or something similar. It used to be that in the old days if memory serves, if you didn't have a device, you did a makedev and it would create a device entry. I don't even see makedev in the base installation. This particular box is a dual boot system. XP on one partition and Mandrake 9.0 on another. It boots to XP and see the serial ports just fine. Mandrake 9.0 doesn't see them at all.
I'm not familiar with kudzu. I downloaded it from rpmfind, but I'm getting dependency errors. I find it very difficult to believe that Mandrake would put together a distro that doesn't support finding new hardware without me having to go try to find other packages. Otherwise how would it find anything to begin with. ?? > On Friday 06 December 2002 10:44 am, Lorne wrote: > > Okay, I'm feeling really stupid. I want to set up a box via (null modem) > > serial cable. It is an openbsd configuration that needs a serial connect. > > Problem is it just now occurs to me that my mandrake 9.0 box doesn't > > recognize I have any serial ports. ??? What is up with that? XP sees them > > fine. Hard drake sees like 6 usb ports but no serial. I went to do a > > makedev and that doesn't even exist. ?? > > > > Has it be changed to something better? Serial is pretty darned basic. > > And while I'm at it, what happened to the hardware detection routine when > > booting that mandrake had that would detect a change? That is either > > broken or removed?
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