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 -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090227/ba9d788f/attachment-0005.sig>