This thread got me curious and although I don't use the serial ports. I thought I'd check the laptop.... yep I have /dev/tts and 0 inside it... and no serial ports don't show up. So I ran hardrake2 from the command line and got this.
modprobe: Can't locate module serial modprobe: Can't locate module serial Please wait while probing serial ports... rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded Now I went and checked and sure enough no parallel port either. Hmmmm. so I looked into the modules directory for serial.o.gz... none... however there does exist generic_serial.so.gz..... which does load.. which may or may not give me the serial port but like I said don't use and have no "test" for it's workings. Harddrake however still doesn't list my parport nor my serial ports. checking lsmod the relevant lines are. parport_pc 21672 1 parport 23936 1 [lp parport_pc] generic_serial 9404 0 (unused) so in theory despite the fact that they aren't listed they should be working. James On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 11:49, Joe Braddock wrote: > You might try hardrake2, I'm typing this from memory, though, so it could easily be >wrong. When I get home this evening, I'll check on it. Are you running devfsd? If >so, it should create the links when you boot up. If not, you will probably have to >create them manually. I'm not sure what you are trying to do with insmod. It's for >inserting modules, but /dev/tts/0 isn't a module it's a device, (so it should sit >there doing nothing). You want to create a symbolic link with something like "ln >/dev/tts0 /dev/tts/0" or something along those lines (again, I'm not at a linux box >today 8-( but if that's not correct and someone wants to submit the correct syntax, >I won't be offended!). > > I'll check this evening and if no one has corrected the above, I'll do so. > > Joeb > > -------Original Message------- > From: Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 12/07/02 03:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re: [expert] Hardrake doesn't see my serial ports? > > > On Saturday 07 December 2002 11:55 am, Joe Braddock wrote: > > Do you maybe have /dev/tts0 and /dev/tts1? That's the serial ports on my > > Interesting. I just looked in /dev and DID find a directory called tts. > Inside there, there is a 0 and a 1! ??? Just did an insmod /dev/tts/0 and it > just sits there doing nothing. ?? > > > system. I'm not at my Mandrake box right now, but it should include kudzu > > and harddrake in the distro. Actually, it might now be called harddrake2 > > Mine does not include the kudzu, but it does include hardrake. It is not > included in the distro that I can find. > > > or something like that. If you go into MCC and select hardware, do the > > serial ports show up there? > > > MCC? Mandrake control center? It does not show any reference to the serial > interfaces at all. ?? > > It shows: > SMBus controllers - 82801DB SMBus Controller > USB controllers - 1 82801DB USB Enchanced Controller and 3 82801DB USB > Controllers > SCSI Controllers > EIDEA/ATA controllers > Mouse > Bridges > Ethernet card > Soundcard > TVcard > Videocard > DVD-ROM > CD/DVD burners > Disk > Floppy > > > > Joeb > > > > -------Original Message------- > > From: Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: 12/07/02 01:33 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [expert] Hardrake doesn't see my serial ports? > > > > > 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? > > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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