On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:17:44PM -0500, stan mcintosh wrote:
> I am running Fedora 5 on an MSI AMD socket 754 mainboard, and I want to
> use Pikdev with a serial port microcontroller programmer. The problem
> is that I cannot get the serial port to come alive. Below are the
> rights properties, and I have added myself to the uucp and ls groups.
>
> [stan@localhost ~]$ ls -l /dev/ttyS*
> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Nov 7 14:18 /dev/ttyS0
> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Nov 7 14:18 /dev/ttyS1
> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 66 Nov 7 14:18 /dev/ttyS2
> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 67 Nov 7 14:18 /dev/ttyS3
> [stan@localhost ~]$
>
> Pikdev has a debugging function to allow the operator to turn specific
> pins on and off. There is no response to the serial port, and I have
> tried all ports with all combinations of address/IRQ settings in the
> BIOS. Turning parallel port pins on and off is a snap.
>
> Anyone see what I have set up incorrectly? (By the way, I did check the
> serial cable thoroughly for continuity, and the serial port is soldered
> in as part of the motherboard to leave me no opportunity to have
> forgotten to connect a cable.)
>
> Thanks.
>
> stan
Stan, have you tried using setserial to examine and change the properties
of the serial port?
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