Re: traditional bug: only one of two serial ports found on HP Vectra XM

Denis Vlasenko (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:30:16 -0200


On 17 April 2002 04:54, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> historically I believed Linux very much. When it said my HP Vecra XM
> only has one serial port I was surprised, but believed it. That was
> some years ago. 2.4.18 still says that there is one serial port:
>
> ttyS00 at 0x3f8 (irq=4) as a 16550A
>
> However recently I had to work on the backside of the PC and found
> two(!) serial ports labelled "Serial A" and "Serial B". So shouldn't
> both ports be detected?

How about opening the case and checking whether those ports actually
connected to motherboard? Checking BIOS config?
Without waiting for another 'some years' :-)

Seriously, do you have any reason to think second port is really
exists beside physical connector?

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vda
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