Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:32:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:32:39 -0400 Received: from 167.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.167]:8709 "EHLO Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:32:38 -0400 Message-Id: <200204171128.g3HBS5X29316@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Denis Vlasenko Reply-To: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua To: "Ulrich Windl" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: traditional bug: only one of two serial ports found on HP Vectra XM Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:30:16 -0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] In-Reply-To: <3CBD382B.20432.3A9A82@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 17 April 2002 04:54, Ulrich Windl wrote: > historically I believed Linux very much. When it said my HP Vecra XM > only has one serial port I was surprised, but believed it. That was > some years ago. 2.4.18 still says that there is one serial port: > > ttyS00 at 0x3f8 (irq=4) as a 16550A > > However recently I had to work on the backside of the PC and found > two(!) serial ports labelled "Serial A" and "Serial B". So shouldn't > both ports be detected? How about opening the case and checking whether those ports actually connected to motherboard? Checking BIOS config? Without waiting for another 'some years' :-) Seriously, do you have any reason to think second port is really exists beside physical connector? -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/