serial cable/port problem?

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi all. Quite recently, I thought that my serial port up and ddied on my 
laptop. However, it resorted to being quite flaky at best;  it decided 
to work fine on Windblows. Every so often, even with my 2.6.6 kernel, 
the port would act quite flaky. My conclusion that it was the cable that 
was at fault. However, on another machine that I have (my server) 
running 1.6.11.7, the cable worked just fine with that particular port. 
Could it be that some pins on the laptop port are bent? Reason I say 
that is as of now, I can only plug the cable in part way so that the 
Dectalk gets successfully probed. If I plug the cable in all the way, 
the device probe fails. Doe asyone have any other ideas that I may not 
have thought of? I really don't want to have to fry this port just so I 
get Dell to replace it. Thanks!
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