Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: serial ports | Date | 8 Jun 1998 09:25:48 +0200 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980607232658.4316A-100000@omni.fikus.com>, Filip J. Bujanic <fbujanic@fikus.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I am having weird problems trying to set up one of my servers to boot via >serial console. I am running 2.1.104 kernel, 3 serial ports.... If I >boot "normaly" (with video card everything works perfect), but if I use >serial serial port as a console I get following error: > >rs_close: bad serial port count; tty->count is 1, state->count is 0
Hmm that is strange. AFAIK the message is reasonably harmless but that should not happen.
>System works fine (boots up, and spits evrything correcly through the >serial console), but the modem on /dev/ttyS2 is asleep (desn't respond to >any commands). I have read all the documentation which comes with the >kernel and serial how-to, but haven't found anything mentioning this >problem.
Check if the serial console port and ttyS2 don't share the same interrupt. Might be a simple hardware conflict.
Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, miquels@cistron.nl | eventually eliminating it.
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