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[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 02 February 2008 01:09:07 AleXX® wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2008 7:12 PM, Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > # dmesg | grep tty
> > serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> > 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> > 0000:06:03.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0xb800 (irq = 19) is a ST16650V2
> > 0000:06:03.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0xb400 (irq = 19) is a ST16650V2
>
> Hello Stan!
> It seems we are running the same thing there: 3 Serial ports:
>
> SRV01 # dmesg | grep tty
> serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> 00:0f: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> 0000:03:00.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0xec00 (irq = 19) is a 16550A
> 0000:03:00.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0xec08 (irq = 19) is a 16550A
>
> One for Serial Console, one for the FaxModem and one for the UPS.
> I've added my brand new 2 serial port card 10 minutes ago, rebooted
> and just run the "faxaddmodem" of Hylafax...
> I just told to this script to use the ttyS1and everything has went
> smooth!! I had no need to run any command to "mount" the new com
> ports...

All this has become much clearer to me than it was before, from the 
replies of you and others. (Not that they haven't raised new questions 
=;-/8).
> Maybe you can try to check if the modem is working...
> Or if you have a nullmodem cable and you are running, like me, a
> serial console, you can connect the ttyS0 (I assume is for the
> console) to the ttyS1 (that I assume is for the faxmodem) and see if
> the com port is working fine! Use minicom for this test.

Now I have no reason to think the ports aren't working. I think my trouble 
is now in the configurations, and I have to work on that.

> I wish you a good luck!!

I will need it. And I'll be back.

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Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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