[ltp] serial port on T40 with Redhat 9

Elaine Cheong linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:02:56 -0800 (PST)


I'm having trouble getting my serial port working (/dev/ttyS0) (and also
I'm not sure if I'm testing it properly).  I have a T40 with Redhat 9
installed with the 2.4.20-20.9 kernel from up2date.  I'm running a java
program which uses the IBM Javacomm package and gives me the following
error messsage:

tcgetattr() failed on /dev/ttyS0(5)!
Error on serial@COM1:19200: java.io.IOException: Couldn't configure COM1

I get the following information (see below).  It doesn't look like the
serial port is there...am I mistaken?

Thanks,
Elaine

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topaz:~:setserial -a /dev/ttyS0
/dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
        Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
        closing_wait: 3000
        Flags: spd_normal skip_test

topaz:~:cat /proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0376-0376 : ide1
03bc-03be : parport0
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
1800-181f : Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1)
  1800-181f : usb-uhci
1820-183f : Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2)
  1820-183f : usb-uhci
1840-185f : Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3)
  1840-185f : usb-uhci
1860-186f : PCI device 8086:24ca (Intel Corp.)
  1860-1867 : ide0
  1868-186f : ide1
1880-189f : Intel Corp. 82801DB SMBus
18c0-18ff : Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio
1c00-1cff : Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio
2000-207f : Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem
2400-24ff : Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem
3000-3fff : PCI Bus #01
  3000-30ff : PCI device 1002:4c66 (ATI Technologies Inc)
4000-40ff : PCI CardBus #03
4400-44ff : PCI CardBus #03
4800-48ff : PCI CardBus #06
4c00-4cff : PCI CardBus #06
8000-803f : PCI device 8086:101e (Intel Corp.)
  8000-803f : e1000