Re: 2.6.0-test11 -- Failed to open /dev/ttyS0: No such device

From: William Park
Date: Sun Nov 30 2003 - 14:07:42 EST


On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:36:56PM +0100, Jacek Kawa wrote:
> It reminds me, that I had to add serial to the list of modules
> loading at start to get back access to /dev/ttyS*
> (while upgrading from -test9 to -test10).
>
> install serial /sbin/modprobe 8250 && { /etc/init.d/setserial modload }

Yes, that did it. 'modprobe 8250' loads '8250' and 'serial_core'
modules. It's odd that I have to be explicit about it in 2.6.0, whereas
2.4.23 loads 'serial' module automatically when dialing out.

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@xxxxxxxx>
Linux solution for data management and processing.
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