serial cable/port problem?

[Joseph C. Lininger]

My guess would in fact be that you have a bent pin if the cable works
fine on a different machine. It is either that, or a short on the serial
board itself. If it is just a bent pin, you may be able to fix that by
straightening that. Of course, you take the risk of snapping it off
completely if you do it.

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Joseph C. Lininger
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And so it came to pass that on Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Igor Gueths said

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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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