Topic: Serial/modem tty device on v4

[SR]

I just downloaded and installed the beta (although the file says esmith4.0b3).  No matter the PC I install on I get the same error trying any external modem.
On boot the serial ports are detected as ttyS00 and ttyS01, when I look in /dev and in the esmith config the device selection is ttyS0 ttyS1 etc.  I verified esmith sets the /dev/modem as it should, but none of these seem to be the actual serial ports.  The log shows a timeout reaching the device.  I have tried several ext modems and installed on several PCs to confirm.  Any ideas on this?

[Charlie Brady]

SR wrote:

> I just downloaded and installed the beta (although the file
> says esmith4.0b3).

The latest is 4.0b6.

> No matter the PC I install on I get the
> same error trying any external modem. On boot the serial ports
> are detected as ttyS00 and ttyS01, when I look in /dev and in
> the esmith config the device selection is ttyS0 ttyS1 etc.  I
> verified esmith sets the /dev/modem as it should, but none of
> these seem to be the actual serial ports.

Can you explain what you mean here? Do you mean that /dev/ttyS0 is not a serial port? Or something else?

> The log shows a timeout reaching the device.  I have tried
> several ext modems and installed on several PCs to confirm.

That's usually an indication that the IRQ setting is non-standard, or there is an IRQ clash. You can try using the setserial program to auto-probe for IRQ - that might help you.

Regards

Charlie