-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi there. My next thought was the pins in the board itself...However, if its a short in the serial board itself...Time to start thinking about convincing Dell to replace the board...Which I don't think will be easy in the slightest... On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:35:21PM -0600, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- How many chunks could checkchunk check if checkchunck could check chunks? - -- Alan Cox -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBQt8H6qe2pgKIdGq4AQqeqRAAhLKyNMJfpvfH58uZId7uETFI5zuy5KyT UC325iTZlVeUghTcFCBXFNsBz/kgI1ikUxAP8Yf29EQv74OvOh45iENZFytCrng9 +Pgo4tuwv2wSPlF4BhIFO3aEWLd+EuJKe/ukIHRwmMh2eomQG5j+IqIeChW9NsTJ 9wHb4MIP8h4lOIs+3yCx/A4m8ap5FZGgwdhub3XScwYV90cDlJ0pG6Ggx7tMNpoN 6gkQQdADNbcF6NFhtiB9TlqbAO+7UwuGLZvfV2MDeS/5WAWVUUgXcFTkE+xkCxXd P8z2BWGagXFmrAGy4OR4hR8ZTrf0cPeeHPn4DjLJzsiRjPErlIN+9cjmy3Qo+FPu ASJVjKY+L9yBW4Ljlot/1lZUVHZgdpnyzlpkQqtnPZBbTNg4dDYr2XrPrR6grSF6 qyat2DuQMnJ/leAUqeQ8E6MRtMcr9Oxt7ykPw5EF1OO99ccX+8g5vXb0b43cQB8a /HuIOLFL/I1Zsm9NUHQUqO+6upkcj16TobPzf9GNAwRkznEpmGKucNpVMjYyfVqK XNelbotoV6RbFj7ZcI6urUBKJKXlbJb7qh3J64Af7GlEPTmtj+w0UDHqhQ94DEUX 0Wn1wZcXlLd0NgsHizXmycNAWPqVM/ip9VmC2RAfqgLMukD9gAaiM8zAkkMccj2X uZZhdXnNPuo= =l5TI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
