Dave, Thanks very much, but on Fedora 2 that looks like the file I referred to originally and starts with the same paragraph: To use a serial port as console you need to compile the support into your kernel - by default it is not compiled in. For PC style serial ports it's the config option next to "Standard/generic (dumb) serial support". This same file (at least the beginning) is on Enterprise Linux 3 also. I'm not saying I believe it, but that's what it says. -- Lee Maschmeyer <lee_Maschmeyer@xxxxxxxxx> "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." --Lewis Carroll _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list