Bernie Gardner wrote:

I am using 6.4 on a laptop. I can't get the serial port to be automaticaly inititialized on startup. I've tried putting setserial in the boot.local file but it doesn't help. Typing the exact same command after the system boots works fine, so there's nothing wrong with the hardware or with the operating system support for the serial interface.

As far as I know, setting the serial ports happens normaly a little later in the boot process, this would explain why it doesnŽt work when you setserial in boot.local. You should see a "Setting up serial ports" when booting your laptop, if youŽve configured it to set serial ports at start, then you should see a red "failed", since you write that it doesnŽt work. Do you see that? May be you havenŽt configured your serial ports in the /etc/rc.config? If not, you can do this with yast, under system administration (or similar). I hope that helps a little! JLT -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

Bernie Gardner wrote:

I am using 6.4 on a laptop. I can't get the serial port to be automaticaly inititialized on startup. I've tried putting setserial in the boot.local file

The right script should be /sbin/init.d/serial. If you put it in boot local your serial ports are reconfigured as /sbin/init.d/serial is executed later. Changing serial to suit your needs should give you what you want. Henning -- H. Henning Vossieck http://hhv.de [currently inactive] SuSE Linux 6.4 Kernel 2.4.0-test1-ac17-258 glibc 2.1.3 egcs 2.95.2 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/