[ltp] serial port on T40 with Redhat 9

[Elaine Cheong]

Yes, the serial port is on the docking station.  Thanks, changing the BIOS
setting to enable it worked.  (For some reason, WinXP is able to use it
even w/ the serial port disabled in the BIOS).

Thanks,
Elaine

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Joel Ebel wrote:

> What serial port?  Are you in a dock?  My T40 has no serial port,
> although I believe the docks do.  I haven't been able to see if it
> works, but there is a BIOS setting for it.  Is it enabled in the BIOS?
>
> Joel
>
> Elaine Cheong wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > ======
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
>
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