can't find serial port

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Fri Feb 6 18:04:05 EST 2004


I have an old compaq here with a sportster and that's also assigned 
ttyS1. I have an old 14.4k internal modem here that gets ttyS0 when 
installed.
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:18:00PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Yes, but I've found that it's not that uncommon to have internal
> modems (hardware ones in my case), assigned to non-standard ports. For
> example, my server has a U.S. Robotics internal 56k hardware modem,
> which is assigned to /dev/ttyS4. When this machine was running
> windows, the modem got com5, although I only have
> ttyS0/ttyS1/com1/com2 in this box on-board.
> 
> I also got hold of an old box a few weeks ago which has an internal
> sportster 33.6k hardware modem. The modem gets ttyS1/com2, and the 2
> on-board ports get ttyS0 and ttyS2 respectively.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:36:13PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> > that's weird. internal modems are usually assigned either com3 or 
> > com4.
> 
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