serial cable/port problem?

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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It shouldn't be that hard if the machine is under warrantee. Just tell
them your serial port doesn't work. They'll repair or replace it, have
too.

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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 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.
>>
>> --
>> 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
>> Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7
>>
>> 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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