Hi,

I have installed Mandrake Linux 9.1 on a dual boot with Windows XP on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1600 laptop. The installation went well apart from the non operation of the modem and the 9 pin serial port, both of which work perfectly under Windows.

I am not really concerned about the modem but I do need to use the serial port. This is my first experience with Linux, is this something that needs to be configured or do I require a driver?

Any help which you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Hi..
Is it detected or not during the boot.
Check by

dmesg | grep tty


Post the results

Siddiqu.T

Hi,

Here are the results from dmesg, I do not get a response from grep tty.



root@utvinternet stephen]# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk (flepied@bi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version
3.2.2. (Mandrake Linux 9.1
3.2.2-3mdk) #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS - e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS - e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS - e820: 00000000000d0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS - e820:0000000000010000 - 000000000def0000 (usable)
BIOS - e820: 000000000def0000 - 000000000deff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS - e820: 000000000deff000 - 000000000df00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS - e820: 000000000df00000 - 000000000e000000 (reserved)
BIOS - e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
222MB LOWMEM available
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 57072
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 52076 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=305 quiet devfs=mount= acpi=off
Local APIC disabled by BIOS - reenabling
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initialling CPU#0
Detected 1391.372 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop. 2778.72 BogoMIPS
Memory: 222408k/228288k available (1410k kernel code, 5492k reserved, 1118k
data, 136k init, Ok
highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries@ 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU:L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps:0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps:0383fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD mobile AMD Athlon T 1600+ stepping 00
Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
Checking 'hit' instruction. OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vctor:00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APOC timer .
... CPU clock speed is 1391.3607 MHz
... host bus clock speed is 265.0211 MHz
CPU0<T0:2650211,t1:1325028,D:15,S:1325105,C:2650211>
Mtrr:detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI Subsystem revision 20030122
ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at )xfd85e, last bus =1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: APCI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ rourt ALI [10b9/1533] at 00:07.0
ATI Northridge, reserving I/O ports )x3b) to 0x3bb
Isapnp:Scanong or PnP cars.
Isapnp: No Plug and Play device found #Limus NET4.0 for Linus 2.4
Based on Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initiallizing RT netlink socket
Apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Evfs:v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options:0x1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf800000, mapped to 0xce800000, size 32704K
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=33
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5137
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.. Found (800x600, 25593 bytes)
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x16
Fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
TtyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03:0
Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of
Lspci -vv, this message (10b9,5457,1734,100a)
And the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board
To serial-pci-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Register_serial():autoconfig failed
RAMDISK driver initiallized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
Ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Warning: ATI Radeon IGP Northridge is not yet fully tested.
ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04:0
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:04:0. Please try using
pci=biosirq.
ALI15X3: chipset revsion 196
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode:will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa000-0xa007, BIOS settings: hadMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa008-0xa00f, BIOS settings:hdcMA, hddio
had: TOSIBHA MK2018GAS, ATA DISK drive
blk:queue x03cb420,I/O limit 4095Mb (,assk 0xfffffffff)
hdc: Slimtype DVD-ROM LSD-081, APAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 39070080 sectors 920004 MB), CHS=2432/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/luno: p1 p2 < p5 p6 >
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays
md: autorun .
md: . autorun DONE.
NET$: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET$: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 47k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
usb:c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb:c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:02:0
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd0907000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02:0, Acer Laboratories Inc. [Ali] USB 1.1 Controller
usb-c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0f.0
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd0909000, IRQ 10
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0f.0, Acer Laboratories Inc [Ali] USB 1.1 Controller (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
Adding Swap: 232900k swap-space (priority -1)
NTFSdriver 2.1.1a [Flags: R/O MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1
Ohci1394: $Rev: 693 $ Ben Collins bcollins@debian.org
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 01:05.0
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[5] MMIO-[F0406000-F04067FF] Max
Packet=[2048]
Ieee1394: SelfID completion called outside of bus reset!
Ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[00023F29270024FF] [Linux
OHCI-1394]
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0b.1
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd0994800,00:02:3f:af:de:ef, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000.
Trident 4Dwave/SiS 7018/Ali 5451, Tvia CyberPro 5050 PCI Audio, version
0.14.10h, 15:30:19 Mar 14
2003-05-27 PCI: Found IRQ for device 00:08.0
trident: Ali Audio Accelerator found at io 0x8800, IRQ 11
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG64 (UNKNOWN)
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG64 (UNKNOWN)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:08.0
Gameport0: Acer Laboratories Inc [Ali] M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio
Device at pci00:08.0
Speed 2840 kHz
Splash status on console 0 changed to off
Spurious 8259A interrupt : IRQ7.
Hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00



I have sent a copy of this to serial-pci-info@lists.sourceforge.net but I have not yet received a reply.

Thanks for your interest.

Hi..

TtyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

Serial port is detected. U can use the same.
Device name : /dev/ttyS0

Siddiqu.T

Hi,

I tried the command as suggested but it does not operate. Perhaps I am doing something wrong. The device which I am using is an interface to connect the laptop to a motor vehicle diagnostic port. I know the interface and connecting cable are ok as they work fine under windows on the same laptop and vehicle.

Thanks for your help.

What the other post was saying is your com1 port name in linux is /dev/ttys0.

Do you need a special app with the diagnostic tool or just a terminal app similar to hyperterminal?

One such is minicom.

Hi,

Please excuse my lack of knowledge in this area but I am not familiar with hyperterminal or minicom and I only have a very limited knowledge of Linux. I am using software called Freediag, which is a CLI based scantool.

Thanks for your help.

Check the documentation on freediag as to how to specify the com port.

Hi,

I checked the documentation and I found no reference to the com port. I have contacted the software developer and after showing him a copy of the "dmesg" he assures me that Linux is very confused with my serial interface.

Thanks again.

I have the same laptop, and external modem works,
intarnal one should work in the future see :

http://rzr.online.fr/linux

ps: also u'll be welcome in amilo mailing list