On Wed, Sep 24, 1997 at 08:43:26PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:28:18 MDT "Chad D. Zimmerman" > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > > > > Plug-and-Pray ?
Also of concern was that tty01 seemed to be a 16550A first time, and only a 16450 when tty03 disappeared. (And when did these stop being called ttySx?) > Good boy ! :-) Me too. > Ok, so, from boot to boot, serial devices come and go. > No I have no clue. If it were that the devices are there at boot and > then diseappear, I had an explanation, but if in the same conditions > the devices come and go from boot to boot, no idea. Sorry. Some old AMI BIOS systems had a bug in their serial detection; as I recall, a port would not be detected if the FIFO was already enabled. I wouldn't expect it to affect Linux though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [***** ] 54% Your train has been cancelled due to defective government at Spring Street.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .