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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org