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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] serial port identification question
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:20:33
Message-Id: 4B351C46.3080708@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] serial port identification question by David Relson
1 David Relson wrote:
2 > My mobo has two serial ports.
3 >
4 > As reported by hwinfo they are:
5 >
6 > Serial Port 0: 0x3f8
7 > Serial Port 1: 0x2f8
8 >
9 > After booting the machine, dmesg indicates that tty0 is the console
10 > with message:
11 >
12 > console [tty0] enabled
13 >
14 > /dev names a multitude of tty devices, i.e. /dev/tty0, /dev/tty1, ...
15 >
16 > How do I determine which devices correspond to the serial ports?
17 >
18 > Thanks.
19 >
20 > David
21 >
22 >
23
24 Mine is /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 . I put both devices so you will
25 notice what is alpha and what is numeric. Also note the S is capitol as
26 well.
27
28 Dale
29
30 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] serial port identification question David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com>