-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It shouldn't be that hard if the machine is under warrantee. Just tell them your serial port doesn't work. They'll repair or replace it, have too. - -- 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 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----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQt8sZSenap9Jqj2wEQIJXgCeOwO1pwEgQO4j0VAlpZGSxQ1inZEAoJV9 UTO063oEbX7aq08tP5ovmr7H =bueF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
