[ale] Debian serial ports

[Boris Borisov]

I missed the part with "prebuilt kernels. Have you tried with different
one?


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think isapnp would do anything with serial ports. Check BIOS for
> enabling serial ports first with proper I/O, IRQ numbers. The other day I
> needed serial port to communicate with one embedded board. Took me about 15
> minutes to find out that serial port one was set differently in BIOS than
> 3F8-4 and picocom wont speak with the device. Test were done with latest
> Puppy Linux not Debian!
>
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:07 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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