<div dir="ltr"><div>Have you run setserial(8) to see if you can see those serial ports? It's in the setserial package on debian, if you have to <br>grab it from the repository.<br><br></div>-- CHS<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Boris Borisov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
if you have null modem cable do console to conso<br>
le connection.<br>
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On 5/5/14, Alex Carver <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Apparently I don't even have the isapnp module at all so I can't do a<br>
> thing. Adding isapnp.conf does nothing. But serial_core and 8250 both<br>
> did something (maybe).<br>
><br>
> I'm not sure if the parallel ports are working (there are two in this<br>
> machine) but the parport_serial, 8250_pci, and lp modules loaded along<br>
> with 8250 and serial_core. dmesg shows ttyS0 and ttyS1 found along with<br>
> parport0 and parport1. So maybe it worked. I added all those modules<br>
> to /etc/modules just in case.<br>
><br>
> On 2014-05-05 06:05, Matt Hessel wrote:<br>
>> I don't think that isapnp will enumerate parallel or serial ports.<br>
>> Generally you have to force detection or add an entry under<br>
>> /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf for the module to load.<br>
>> On May 5, 2014 3:09 AM, "Alex Carver" <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> I was trying to migrate one of my label printers over to a Debian box<br>
>>> (currently squeeze, soon to be wheezy) but for some reason the box can't<br>
>>> see any of the serial (or parallel) ports. This is an old P-II<br>
>>> motherboard so, if I remember correctly, all the serial and parallel<br>
>>> ports are behind the PCI-ISA bridge. The problem is that I don't seem<br>
>>> to have access to the ISA bridge though it does show up in lspci:<br>
>>><br>
>>> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton<br>
>>> II] (rev 01)<br>
>>><br>
>>> Normally I would expect isapnp or an equivalent module to activate it<br>
>>> but that's not working. I can't seem to find anything online about a<br>
>>> missing isapnp or anything remotely similar. I'm using the prebuilt<br>
>>> kernels for this system so why isapnp isn't there is just confusing me.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Thoughts?<br>
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