[plug] Ideas, anyone

[Jason :)]

This is probably going to sound like a dumb question, but are you sure 
it's ttyS1 the modem is on and not COM1 (ttyS0 in linux)?
That's something that had me going for ages when I first started with 
linux.....

Jason


John Breen wrote:

> Couple of questions:
> 
> 1)  I just moved the mobo out of a defunct windows machine (seems there's
> problems w. the power switch?)  into my Linux box so that my nice K62/500
> can run a REAL OS.  Now, when I go to wvdialconf, Linux says "found 2 serial
> ports" followed by "there's something on ttyS1" followed by "but it ain't a
> modem!".  The first 2 bits are right, the lsat is dead wrong - I have an
> external modem on ttyS1.  Funny thing is, Linux finds and goes with my
> internal 33k6 on ttyS3 which I wound up putting in because of the external
> hassles.  Anyway, the question I have is, has anyone else run into this
> issue?  If so, how did you fix them?
> 
> Before anyone asks, yes the plugs are on the mobo, yes they're the right way
> round, and yes, the BIOS says the ports are there and they're on standard
> I/O Address/IRQ.  The mobo is a Epox MVP3C2 (Via Apollo c/s)...
> 
> <snip>