Re: [SLUG] Serial Port issue

From: Scott Piper (piper@ij.net)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 14:55:17 EST


Does the user have write permissions on /dev/ttyS0? If so, I would
check in /proc to see what ports and addresses you have.

    scott

tufer@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

>I just received a new laptop "shell" because of a minor hardware problem. I
>retained my old hard drive, dvd/cdrom drive, etc. Everything in Linux seems to
>work fine except my serial port. I use minicom and I'm not able to access
>devices from ttyS0.
>
>Anyone know of anything I should be looking for?
>
>The serial port (COM1) works fine in Windows.
>
>Thanks
>
>Tom
>U
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