On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 07:51, Anders Lind wrote: > Hello friends, > > I have encountered a strange problem on my > homebox with mandrake 9.0 and any other > Linux distribution. It seems that it doesn't > detect my serial ports within Linux. In Windows > there are no problems. statserial doesn't give me > much, but looking under /dev there are no > /dev/modem nor /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1. When > I look into harddrake there aren't any serial ports > nor any modems and insmod of serial.o fails. > > Anybody can give me any pointers what I should do? > > /Anders
Have you checked your BIOS settings? Sometimes it's worth changing the settings to NO for a PnP-OS...Windows "virtualizes" everything...linux doesn't...I'd suggest to change the BIOS settings to reflect a non-PNP OS and then do a COLD HARD BOOT and see what linux says after that mate...can't hurt at this point, ya reckon? -- Wed Nov 27 07:10:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its name to "America". -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
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