[ale] Debian serial ports

[Alex Carver]

The serial ports have always been enabled.  I just wasn't needing them
until now.  Other kernels behave the same way.

I did manage to get serial_core.ko and 8250.ko to load so that might
solve the problem.  I'll need to test the port later and see if it works.

After that I get to figure out how to set up a serial label printer for
Samba sharing. :)

On 2014-05-05 03:54, Boris Borisov wrote:
> I missed the part with "prebuilt kernels. Have you tried with different
> one?
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I don't think isapnp would do anything with serial ports. Check BIOS for
>> enabling serial ports first with proper I/O, IRQ numbers. The other day I
>> needed serial port to communicate with one embedded board. Took me about 15
>> minutes to find out that serial port one was set differently in BIOS than
>> 3F8-4 and picocom wont speak with the device. Test were done with latest
>> Puppy Linux not Debian!
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:07 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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