Re: SERIAL PORTS in KNOPPIX



On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:03:55 -0500, Terry E. Dwyer
<es290@xxxxxx> wrote:
I have a hardware US-Robotics PCI modem; in Fedora core 1 it shows up
as ttyS4 I/O port 2080 IRQ 11 as shown in dmesg & lspci -v.

In KNOPPIX lspci -v shows the same port & IRQ however it is marked
as [disabled] & there is no sign of it in dmesg.

I have tried adding an entry for it in
/var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf but this doesn't help.

Any ideas?

Try lsmod in Fedora and Knoppix, to see if one uses modules that the
other doesn't.


They are different kernels 2.4.22/2.6.11 so lsmod is very
different;Knoppix shows many more modules.

The only thing that seems relevant is:
serial_core 21120 1 8250 in Knoppix.

I have noticed the same thing in Debian Mepis;they are both Debian
based distributions so it's not surprising.

The only serial ports that show up in dmesg are ttyS0/1 which just work
for external or older ISA modems.

Knoppix is not installed; it's just running from the live CD.

.



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