Michael Whapples wrote: > For some odd reason the Asus system board I have recently bought > seems to have the serial port controller built in (Windows shows > a serial port device in device manager for COM1) but Asus didn't > feel the need to either provide the actual port or the pin header That would be a very difficult quirk for a kernel module to auto-detect. Perhaps there should be a module-parameter able to specify a ttyS0-style, PCI, or USB port ? Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au pj at pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949