From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NOGeG-00063Z-Nc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:20:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 600D5E0979 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f174.google.com (mail-yw0-f174.google.com [209.85.211.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92FCBE050F for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:10:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh4 with SMTP id 4so8482072ywh.10 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:10:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qxxY2wBo6rJBK+B7SkdLY2clMzEclSBSonm6amZIbtc=; b=ssVX4nKUHmRllIL+A4GAsjhnqmOWPKWVHpUyrMtaUARl+SenPirDsHNxIclmdehFiS RtNHbmGUGcSLCDYS1QzaMq7Vw/N3NLEDMDGH8nfNqB22LtsQeqvSQQ9SR7ZaFVxj2hzq 1wads2WHM6Cwj7fssRjA9x5mxsC2lEtnQaZwU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Uv6A9dyZYpuVirL31rFwDkl4UTkBMFJh1Skp76JCFGSAwWaRnw2JFQCBoVSXeWXc+R zF95KShqsv36HLhmAUISjaWFf/hSXLNOZuorS6/k+Aqjwo6F3t/eITt/FfzhMNQuZBCl /QrL73aF6YHB5oB58g7EOGXKNOz+LjATegA24= Received: by 10.90.211.20 with SMTP id j20mr662022agg.78.1261771854188; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:10:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-91-154.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.91.154]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm4298557gxk.0.2009.12.25.12.10.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:10:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B351C46.3080708@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:10:46 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091201 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] serial port identification question References: <20091225131220.4f34ab6a@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20091225131220.4f34ab6a@osage.osagesoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4dfec46b-0853-4e81-8408-11356f21ed62 X-Archives-Hash: b4a1ef5a6d3aef05dff39f3c54c0270f David Relson wrote: > My mobo has two serial ports. > > As reported by hwinfo they are: > > Serial Port 0: 0x3f8 > Serial Port 1: 0x2f8 > > After booting the machine, dmesg indicates that tty0 is the console > with message: > > console [tty0] enabled > > /dev names a multitude of tty devices, i.e. /dev/tty0, /dev/tty1, ... > > How do I determine which devices correspond to the serial ports? > > Thanks. > > David > > Mine is /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 . I put both devices so you will notice what is alpha and what is numeric. Also note the S is capitol as well. Dale :-) :-)