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Re: serial ports

#1987
From: Richard W. Forgette
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 00:00
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you need to add the setserial line to your /rc.d/local or the /rc.d/serial in
the /etc/ directory

Raven wrote:

> Well i can tell linux it's there after i log in by giving it this
> command. setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16450 port 0x2e8 ieq 3 spd_normal
> Then i can use my modem, but i don't want to do that everytime i
> reboot my machine. I checked the serial script in /sbin/init.d and it
> has the same thing in there, but when i reboot linux only configs my
> comm1 and 2.
>
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 05:41:00 -0600, Bob Martin <bmartin@ayrix.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Raven wrote:
> >>
> >> I can't for the life of me figure out how to get linux to see or
> >> config my comm 4. Before i recompiled my kernal it was able to see it.
> >> I've played with the serial script in /sbin/init.d but that hasnt
> >> helped either. I know i have standard serial support in my kernal.
> >> Please any help would be great. I'm using SuSE 6.3
> >
> >Is there a device for it in /dev ? what do you get if you type
> >'setserial -a /dev/ttyS3' ?
> >--
> >
> >Bob Martin
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From: "Richard W. Forgette" <rforget1@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: serial ports
Date: 2000/04/02
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