Hi!

I´m new on this forum, I´m Jonathan and I hope you can help me.
This is the situation:

I have a PC with slackware 10.1 with kernel 2.4 running without problems.
I connect to the serial port (/dev/ttyS1) a device and I can use it without any problem... (I use a C program that use LibSerial).

Now, I have another PC with slackware 10.1 too, but kernel 2.6 (the last release).
I connect the same device, use the same C app but the port here is /dev/ttyS0 (or /dev/tts/0) but it doesn´t work.

I tried with setserial and put the right information... I check the bios.. all possible, but it doesn´t work.
setserial return me the right information and if I do a dmesg | grep tty I see the line where the kernel detect the serial port...
I´m logged as root too, so it isn´t a permission issue...
maybe it´s "blocked" ? or down?

NOTE1: I connect a device that have leds, etc... it isn´t a modem
NOTE2: When I compile the kernel 2.6, I select to built-in all config about the serial port, because I will use it... maybe I should select them as modules?

Could you help me? I don´t know what I can do and need it ASAP.

Thanks in advance.

Best Wishes,

Jonathan

So you say it finds the serial port, but you can't establish a connection to the device? Have you tried the other serial device files (i.e. ttyS1, ttyS2, etc), If you have more than two, this might get mixed up. I also encountered on my pc that if you connect the serial port from back to a front panel, it gets another number.

hi ppr:kut, I tried all you said... I have only one serial port on my motherboard, so I have only one chance.
About establish the connection... As I said, I'm using libserial with a C++ app... this app doesn't report any error, so I think it's connecting fine to the serial port.

Thanks again,

Jonathan

New Information...
Here you have the dmesg | grep tty return

[ 23.562827] Couldn't install MOXA Smartio/Industio family tty driver !
[ 23.625082] SyncLink serial driver $Revision: 4.38 $, tty major#254
[ 23.694525] SyncLink MultiPort driver $Revision: 4.38 $, tty major#253
[ 23.694677] SyncLink GT $Revision: 4.36 $, tty major#252
[ 23.757959] 00:0c: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

As you can see, it says that can't install the moxa driver... I google it and found that the driver is mxser.c, but I tried to modprobe it and doesnt' work, I don't know how to compile it... or where it is on the make menuconfig...

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp

Ok, more news... I put a serial mouse and it works through /dev/ttyS0...
I'm totally lost... I don't know what happen...