My guess would in fact be that you have a bent pin if the cable works fine on a different machine. It is either that, or a short on the serial board itself. If it is just a bent pin, you may be able to fix that by straightening that. Of course, you take the risk of snapping it off completely if you do it. -- It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over. (History repeats itself) Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 And so it came to pass that on Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Igor Gueths said > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi all. Quite recently, I thought that my serial port up and ddied on my > laptop. However, it resorted to being quite flaky at best; it decided > to work fine on Windblows. Every so often, even with my 2.6.6 kernel, > the port would act quite flaky. My conclusion that it was the cable that > was at fault. However, on another machine that I have (my server) > running 1.6.11.7, the cable worked just fine with that particular port. > Could it be that some pins on the laptop port are bent? Reason I say > that is as of now, I can only plug the cable in part way so that the > Dectalk gets successfully probed. If I plug the cable in all the way, > the device probe fails. Doe asyone have any other ideas that I may not > have thought of? I really don't want to have to fry this port just so I > get Dell to replace it. Thanks! > - -- > How many chunks could checkchunk check if checkchunck could check chunks? > - -- Alan Cox > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIVAwUBQt50y6e2pgKIdGq4AQoNqxAAtkRLRZCqU69tBNdk60/PlPeAbjiGO7wQ > iuNqCZ1aM0QkLturTtRx/zZuFfh1BC4PgWvabdV3sMuoSwXArlUqhX8TH9NRhL/R > P9P87QKxiMZV+kJBSvAGkhw9c+vwrXkr3SnqmImp5FnoyTMqy/BZ9NDXk2IGDShy > wSU+ifJPvXpExVf4A7JUpeO+rHBB6IU7AJ4L17kgpeUZ2S+QyfGbgWFmJYOzNYJ5 > kLr+FSqtDEoZthBj6OlOvx90WO6IIHf3W1MrEuUAnk7F5y7WpAsvxJ71HT/0bQ39 > uN08nNHSFmESx+v8vdYmfdLvp1ta1duV02U3JKJUzIV7Ss7wyOy1x0gfiRv59JPW > dnkWkkbCeeGvKFB0IjgLBNw9cCZescVz3c2+KqYWmbvLEytY16+B1rfbjksClTIk > l0sgHNeOnfErkXwhrhfR1GnAKBzsc/FZpANMkQ/SRBZGSDCu0mEWucdX+c9HyBSE > udTEhLHPXv27LEFwq8KqPxsYobvG9m3P8pkN9OK1SCPpqkpEgQKmc/isLLZZvP0F > E4qkPP7Vx3/wd1VcOSkUpVgRSDgq3KE1XiH3h9WbdilLSmGaAmg38bK9j9mGt2NM > wU9uHdzn/kDzuJeAT+X6hIeeVH5VEGPFX+CM4U6dAAx1UIYKzlbvXVObt/BLOBYl > JaK8CJ0xT6I= > =Ig/a > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
