On Thursday 26 February 2009 13:37:00 William L. Maltby wrote:
Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Didn't you say there was only one port? There might be a second on the main board that is accessible via a header. If it's not hooked up disable all but the first in the BIOS (later). It's not really hurting anything as is, but it will free the I/O address and IRQ for assignment to other devices. But wait until you have things working - I suspect you have _two_ ports (probably 1 9 pin and 1 25 pin). A second port of 25 pins might easily be mistaken for a printer port. Long ago a switch from Centronics style to RS-232 style began to become the "standard". Physically, it looks the same as a serial port, the visual difference being the "gender" of the connector will be opposite.
Just to update you on this. I checked the motherboard manual, and it clearly says there is one serial port and one parallel port. Strange that /var/log/messages seemed to report two, isn't it?
Anne