Re: serial port driver ?

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On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 02:49:28PM +0200, Ramagudi Naziir wrote:
> On 1/20/07, Jan Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >My wild guess would be that the module is not correctly compiled for the
> >running kernel and/or the /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep (generated by
> >depmod) is corrupted and it's not loading some prerequisite.
> 
> I guess you are right.
> I compiled the freshest rc5 vanilla kernel and it worked like a charm.
> only question left is what is this 8250_pci ? is the serial port in my 
> laptop
> actually attached to the PCI bus ?

Yes, that's not uncommon. PCI and derivatives (PCI-E, cardbus) are
becoming the standard bus on laptops, but also on desktops.

> and what is 8250_pnp ?

A driver for ISA PnP based serial ports.


Erik

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