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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stan Goodman wrote:
> On Friday 01 February 2008 22:53:07 Koenraad Lelong wrote:
> > Stan Goodman schreef:
> > > I have a PCI card with two serial ports. Apparently openSuSE
> > > recognizes them,  but I need to mount them explicitly. I want them to
> > > be mounted at boot. Of the three ports, I want one to be for a UPS,
> > > and another for a fax modem.
> > ...
> >
> > > Again, the man page for setserial is not sufficiently clear for me to
> > > understand how to use this command. For example, man describes what
> > > should happen when the -g switch is omitted; when I run the command
> > > without the switch I am told only "Invalid flag".
> > >
> > > What I want is to list these ports in fstab, so  that the ports are
> > > available upon boot.
> > >
> > > A few hints would be greatly appreciated.
> > For what it's worth :
> > First : this is on my 10.2 system.
> > You mentioned setserial, so you installed the package. This also
>
> No, I didn't install any package in order to get setserial; it already 
> exists on the system. I also find the script in /etc/init.d/
>
> > installs a boot-script, see /etc/init.d/setserial. I believe this
> > initialises your serial ports.
> > Did you reboot ? You could also run that startup script.
> > You say you need to mount them, I never heard of mounting serial ports.
> > Your software should do the necessary stuff to "open" them. Maybe try
> > minicom.
>
> Are you saying that the script runs at boot time, and therefore the ports 
> should be installed and configured without help from me? If so, I have to 
> find out why the (external) modem doesn't seem to know that it is 
> attached to anything.

A proper modem is a dumb device, and the only "awareness" it
has is the "Carrier Detect" status bit.



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