mailbhupal & manojjha,
Thanks a lot for your post. It took me about 3 minutes to do these get connected - most of the time I wasted since I didn't setserial uart 16550A. I am posting this from Ububtu Fawn running on dell lattitude d620 (from Live CD!). I cannot imagine such versatility with any other os than Ubuntu.
manojjha, maybe you could include the "setserial uart 16550A" more explicitly in your post ?
- k