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To: vanian@dfw.net (Phil A. Bowl)
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Subject: Re: Serial Port Problems 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Dec 94 16:52:00 CST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 1994 16:05:46 -0800
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>  Hello,  I am having problems getting my serial port (/dev/tty01) to engage in 
>bi-directional communications.  I compiled my kernel with the following line:
>
>device		sio1	at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr
>
>  ...That's what I used and I cannot get it to work still.  I am absolutely 
>100% sure that my modem is on COM2.  Otherwise I wouldn't be leaving you this
>message now.  Any possible help would be great.  Thanks ahead of time.

   Can you explain a little more about how it doesn't work - what errors or
hangs or whatever you are seeing? Does the startup device probe see the port?

-DG