'modprobe' is just a mechanism for loading modules (what Windows people think of as 'drivers'.) 'sudo modprobe serial' would load the 'serial.ko' module, which would allow you to access your ports - assuming that it's not already loaded (you can check that with 'lsmod'.)

The important bit that you need to do is to configure the file that controls the assignment of your serial ports; that's done via 'setserial'. Look at 'man setserial' and '/etc/init.d/setserial'.

For an excellent overall view, take a look at the serial HOWTO: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html. 


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In reply to Re: Device::SerialPort and new RS-232 cards by oko1
in thread Device::SerialPort and new RS-232 cards by Bruce32903

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