On Sunday 03 February 2008 21:33:05 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2008-02-03 at 19:41 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
What I want is to list these ports in fstab, so that the ports are available upon boot.
I now understand my error. I'm sure I have read more than once that Linux "treats everything as a directory"; that threw me.
A directory? Maybe you read a translation :-? I think it should have said "a file". Everything appears as a special file under the /dev directory.
The last sentence in the above paragraph would have given me the same confusion. But I have got the hang of it now.
What you need is to configure /etc/init.d/setserial.
DO I need to do that, given that the YaST Hardware Information facility sees the modem and knows that it is on ttyS1, and dmesg knows the irq level?
Depends... if you can access the devices, then no, you don't need to. Otherwise, yes. In any case, setserial runs on every start, so I suppose it did something.
I am pretty sure that I can access the modem device, because the modem's LEDs flashed madly when the YaST Hardware Information module was collecting information.
Just try to access the ports using minicom (as root). It's probably the best program. Better if there is something connected to the port, like a modem, or you will not see any response.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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