serial cable/port problem?

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi there. My next thought was the pins in the board itself...However, if its a short in the serial board itself...Time to start thinking about convincing Dell to replace the board...Which I 
don't think will be easy in the slightest...
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:35:21PM -0600, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> 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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> It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and
> over. (History repeats itself)
> Joseph C. Lininger
> jbahm at pcdesk.net
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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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