PE2550 Serial Ports not working

Bob Fish king at bobfish.org
Tue May 1 09:00:18 CDT 2007


Well, after a lot of mucking about It seems that Fedora Core 6 did not 
install serial drivers at all.  After many attempts to install them by 
hand, I gave up and did a clean install of Fedora Core 5. 

The serial ports are working fine now.

Bob Fish wrote:
> I have a dual processor 2550 with FedoraCore 6 installed.  The 
> installer did not correctly recognize the 2 onboard serial ports.
>
> Whenever I run setserial /dev/ttyS0 i get the response
> /Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument
>
> /I have changed the bios settings from Auto to the correct address for 
> each port, didn't change the setserial response.  Also, I've upgraded 
> to bios A09.
>
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
> -- 
>   



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