Can't get minicom to work on Slackware 11.0

[wabob]

I am trying to use my COM1 serial port to console in to a network device. I log into root, enter minicom -s, then set Serial Device as /dev/ttyS0 (all other settings are known correct). Then I initialize minicom, and nothing happens. I know I am doing this properly, as it used to work fine when I had Ubuntu.

I did cat /proc/interrupts and no entries were shown for IRQ3 or IRQ4, which are supposed to be /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. Do I need to mount or activate the serial ports? Or does the 2.4.33.3 kernel not recognize them?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

 

[wabob]

Never mind. Got it working. Someone suggested that I log in as root and enter:

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.serial

which I did. Then I started minicom, but this time I set the Serial Device to /dev/ttyS1 (instead of /dev/ttyS0) and it started working. I can now use minicom on my Slackware PC to program network devices via my COM1 serial port.

Hope this helps someone else in the future...

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw