RE: A few annoyances...

	>  Hey everyone,

	>  I've been testing RH7 on one of my systems and have just one
minor issue: does RedHat handle serial ports differently to 
	> Mandrake, Lycoris and other Linux distros? The machine has an
Intel AL440LX mobo, and the serial ports have worked 
	> perfectly under Mandrake 8.1 and Lycoris Desktop/LX Amethyst but I
cannot sync my Palm to RH7 (or 7.2 for that matter). 
	> Instead I get an error asking if  my serial ports are correctly
configured. The BIOS is set to non-plug  and play OS, and the 
	> ports are both correctly configured with the default settings. Any
ideas?

	You might check the permissions on your serial ports.

	/dev/ttyS[0-3]  - Usually configured as rw for Root only.  chmod 666
/dev/ttyS[0-3] might help.

	Paul Hamel