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ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

If only one, obviously you would see only ttyS00.

Joerg.

to really test if it's working,if you have no device to attach,
take a second computer and connect serial1 (/dev/ttyS0) with a
"null-modem-cabel"
((Txd/Rxd) cable are changed) to serial (/dev/ttyS0) of the other
machine.

Now type (as root):

cat </dev/ttyS0 on the receiving machine

On the sending one type:

echo hello >/dev/ttyS0

Change sender/receiver to know if it's working the other way too...:-)

Good luck

Michael Heiming
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I connected one terminal of a null-modem cable into the first serial
port and the other therminal into the second serial port.
And...typed follow.

cat </dev/ttyS0       # in the fisrt virtual console
echo hello >/dev/ttyS1      # in the second virtual console

But....it seems not to work.
Is it a wrong method?

Quote:

> Thanks a lot.
> I think that it's a great idea.
> But I slightly modified your method like this.

> I connected one terminal of a null-modem cable into the first serial
> port and the other therminal into the second serial port.
> And...typed follow.

> cat </dev/ttyS0       # in the fisrt virtual console
> echo hello >/dev/ttyS1      # in the second virtual console

> But....it seems not to work.
> Is it a wrong method?

it should work if your serial ports are detected by the kernel and work.

type:

setserial -a /dev/ttyS1

apropos serial

man setserial

You should have some scripts under /depends_on_distro/init.d/serial,
look what it's doing.

Is your serial support compiled in the kernel, or loadable modul?

 cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep SERIAL

Ismod

If compiled as loadable module look if is loaded? If not load it with
modprobe.

What says statserial:

statserial  /dev/ttyS0
<end with CTRL-C>

Wow, many things are related to those dump serial ports?

What says dmesg, if it's not lost cause last reboot is long ago?

Try this...

Thank god it's friday today...:-)

Michael Heiming