> goes in your kernel source dir and read: Documentation/serial-console.txt > there are all the commandline/kernelconf. needed to setup a serial console. > > don't worry, i don't have a link to point out the relevant docs > of minicom .. but don't worry, is not hard to use. i read the documentation for the serial console, its said that in most cases there is a kernel recompilation needed to support serial drivers on the machine. but i want to make the program as portable as possible. unrelated to the serial console and the minicom driver, for that exists a userspace program minicom(1):(http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_minicom.htm) is there any other way to log something to a file while being in an interrupt? any ideas would be great thank you _____________________________________________________________________ Extra-Konto: 2,50 %* Zinsen p. a. ab dem ersten Euro! Nur hier mit 25 Euro-Tankgutschein & ExtraPrämie! http://extrakonto.web.de/?mc=021110 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/