Re: [TCLUG:9791] Palm Pilot and Seral Port

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@umn.edu>]

> I've just got my serial ports setup with the default settings.  In the
> BIOS I made sure to turn bother ports on, sometimes they're called
> UARTs rather than serial ports.  Set 1 to 3F8 and IRQ 4, set 2 to 2E8
> and IRQ 3.  Then you should just be able to boot up and use
> /dev/ttyS[0,1].  In the boot sequence you should see something from the
> BIOS that tells which serial ports were found, make sure both are
> found.  Also when Linux starts booting it will list what the serial
> ports are and what it finds.  Check for  that as well.

ahem:

> > I've tried just hooking up a mouse, doing 'cat /dev/ttyS[01]', but no
> > data comes over the line, at least none that I can see.  The serial
> > ports are enabled in the BIOS and show up on boot, so hopefully they are
> > actually alive (and not fried or anything..)

I anticipated your response.  Apparently, you didn't anticipate my
question.

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