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[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

I begin to understand that one _doesn't_ mount the ports in fstab. I had  
assumed otherwise because everything else seems to work that way. 
Understand that I am doing me best to feel my way in this. 

I was surprised to find that the system had recognized the ports 
automatically, and asssumed that this meant only that their presence was 
detected; you seem to be saying that they should also be configured by 
now, with the script and setserial. Is that correct?

> Regards,
> Koebnraad Lelong.



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Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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