can't find serial port

[Charles Crawford]

Is the port enabled in BIOS?  Have you tried the mode command in DOS?

On 
Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Kyrath wrote:

> Hi,
> I've got an old Gateway P2 266 that currently has win98 on it.
> It, unfortunately, has embedded video and sound cards.  However, I'm not sure that would be the cause of my problems with finding the serial port.
> I've tried to redirect output via null modem cable and tried to get it to use the external double talk, but nothing happens.
> It will boot into windows, and it does access the floppy, just once,  when I type "console=ttyS0" or "speakup_synth=ltlk", but no joy.
> I even tried having it look for serial port 2.
> Does anyone have any ideas of what's going on or what else I can try?
> -- Rob
> -- Rob
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