> I have an old AcerAltos 7000 which has builtin serial controllers. As
> these are 8250's, I bought an addon serial controller with 16550A's on it.
> The on-board controller is disabled through the bios. Sometimes, when
> Linux boots, it detects (output from dmesg):
> < snip >
> Serial driver version 4.24 with no serial options enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 8250
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 8250
> < snip >
Are you sure your BIOS is not buggy in this case, and do
not disable the 8250 even when you say it to do so...
You seem to have an hardware conflict.
> Is there any way to force Linux to find the 16550A's?
Should be, using setserial, but IHMO the best solution
is to set the add on card for COM3/COM4 and not use
COM1/COM2.
My $0.02,
Etienne.
----------- etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
-- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
-- ide1: reset: success
----------> I like Linux !
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