On Monday 09 December 2002 05:58 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > Lorne wrote on Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:33:37PM -0700 : > > 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 > > /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 > Believe it or not.... they did not exist until I did a link to /dev/tty/0 and /1! ??? They DO exist now, but I'm concerned something is broken on the hardware detection phase of M9.0. It used to work VERY slick. It would detect any change in hardware and prompt you on what to do. Now that doesn't seem to happen anymore. By design or?
> > 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. > > grep -i /var/log/dmesg ttys > grep -i /var/log/dmesg ttys grep: ttys: No such file or directory tail /var/log/dmesg reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:01) ... Using r5 hash to sort names ReiserFS version 3.6.25 ohci1394: pci_module_init failed
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