[ale] Debian serial ports

[Matt Hessel]

I don't think that isapnp will enumerate parallel or serial ports.
Generally you have to force detection or add an entry under
/etc/modprobe.d/*.conf for the module to load.
On May 5, 2014 3:09 AM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> I was trying to migrate one of my label printers over to a Debian box
> (currently squeeze, soon to be wheezy) but for some reason the box can't
> see any of the serial (or parallel) ports.  This is an old P-II
> motherboard so, if I remember correctly, all the serial and parallel
> ports are behind the PCI-ISA bridge.  The problem is that I don't seem
> to have access to the ISA bridge though it does show up in lspci:
>
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton
> II] (rev 01)
>
> Normally I would expect isapnp or an equivalent module to activate it
> but that's not working.  I can't seem to find anything online about a
> missing isapnp or anything remotely similar.  I'm using the prebuilt
> kernels for this system so why isapnp isn't there is just confusing me.
>
> Thoughts?
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