[ale] Debian serial ports

[Boris Borisov]

if you have null modem cable do console to conso
le connection.

On 5/5/14, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> Apparently I don't even have the isapnp module at all so I can't do a
> thing.  Adding isapnp.conf does nothing.  But serial_core and 8250 both
> did something (maybe).
>
> I'm not sure if the parallel ports are working (there are two in this
> machine) but the parport_serial, 8250_pci, and lp modules loaded along
> with 8250 and serial_core.  dmesg shows ttyS0 and ttyS1 found along with
> parport0 and parport1.  So maybe it worked.  I added all those modules
> to /etc/modules just in case.
>
> On 2014-05-05 06:05, Matt Hessel wrote:
>> 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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