[ltp] Enabling Serial Port?

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The serial port could be disabled in BIOS.  Check that first.

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Huntress Gary B NPRI (HuntressGB@Npt.NUWC.Navy.Mil) (Emailias:  REPLY-MASKED) wrote:

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> I have never tried to use the serial port on the back before and tonight I tried to sync my palm pilot using gpilot.  I used setserial to lock the speed at 56k and I verified on the palm that it was set to 56k too.  I'm assuming the serial port is /dev/ttyS0.
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> I appear to get no communication at all (no hotsync) but there really is no way to tell.
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> It seems unlikely to me but could the serial port be disabled?  If so would I use tpctl to enable it?
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> Thanks,
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> Gary H.
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