On 10/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Haritos</b> <<a href="mailto:jharitos@yahoo.com">jharitos@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks pebender. That fixed the problem. The kernel is also taking control of the serial port as well so my IR blaster doesn't work (just lights up at boot). I tried 'blacklist serial' but this didn't work. Does anyone know what I should add to blacklist the serial port. It's COM1.
<br><br>Thanks again pebender. I would've never figured it out on my own.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Use "setserial" for this. In particular, "setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none".<br><br>In your modprobe.conf
, you can use a line like this:<br><br>install lirc_serial /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_serial<br><br>Carl Fongheiser<br>