Serial port not working in 10.10

[Tom H]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Goran Hasse <gorhas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/12/18 Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
>> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Goran Hasse <gorhas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> My serial port /dev/ttyS0 is not working in Ubuntu 10.10.
>>
>> Have you created an upstart job for it?
>
> This is connected hardware and should not need a upstart job!
>
> I have tried all kinds of serial-modules (witch should it bee?) and both
> minicom and cu (connect unix) without success. So I think it is a device
> driver problem...

Pre-upstart, you had to have a line like "T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L
ttyS0 9600 vt100" in "/etc/inittab" to use a serial console. You now
need an upstart job.