On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Michel Donais wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Michel Donais donais@telupton.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] I can't connect to /dev/ttyS0
You first need to double-check that /dev/ttyS0 is actually the correct serial COM port you have the modem connected to.
Please look under System->Hardware and then click the 16550A-compatible COM port in the LH pane.
Then in the RH pane click on 'Advanced', and find the serial.device string or linux.device_file.
This will be something like: linux.device_file strlist /dev/ttySx where x == 0|1|2|3 serial.device strlist /dev/ttySx where x == 0|1|2|3
Please can you share with us what the reason was for the problem, so others with similar problems can be enlighted, including myself?
Well it's a bit ennoying. I've done all the given check list and got nearly no answer for a solution. So I decided to open the box to see that the serial device connector was partly unplug from the mother board; so it was the source of my problem.
I put it back in palce and it was done.
Ah - Thanks for that Michel - very informative. That's probably one of the last tings I would have taken a look at.
So it was actually a hardware problem - not a software one.
I'm Very pleased you were able to identify and fix the problem :)
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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