[SLL] trouble with extra serial ports. doesn't look like irq problems...

[Chuck Wolber]

On Mon, 2 May 2005, Ben Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:39:56AM -0700, Chuck Wolber wrote: ...
> > I'm *ASSUMING* you're doing this on a Linux system (you didn't 
> > explicitly say so and /dev/ttyS0 can be found on other *IX systems). 
> > If so, you need to ensure that you've compiled support for extra 
> > serial ports into your kernel.
> 
> it is a Linux system.  yep.  I'm using a standard Debian 2.6.8 kernel, 
> which appears to have support for extra serial ports built in.

A quick and dirty test is to "cat /dev/ttySX". If there's no driver bonded 
to it, you'll get an I/O error. Otherwise it'll just hang there.

..Chuck..


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