On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Michel Donais wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Michel Donais <donais at 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------