Cool, so those beasts do exist, though a permanent supply is still
missing.
> > IPCop doesn't have the lspci command so I'll have to boot my
> > knoppix disk to find the IRQ and base address for the
> > set-serial commands.
Yep, kinda trivial though
> cat /proc/interrupts
> cat /proc/ioports
That's not gonna work, as under Linux (unlike M$) these 2 lists reflect
what the kernel already knows about, and the kernel knows everything
for which a driver has been loaded, but nothing else. So, if your card
is recognised automatically by the kernel, e.g. as com3 / ttyS2,
there's no need to stuff around with setserial as the kernel has
already done that. If the kernel hasn't recognised it ("it" being
hardware in general), the driver isn't loaded and /proc/interrupts is
flamin' useless for finding out where the hardware might be hiding.
Querying the PCI interfaces via lspci is the only reliable way.
Using setserial isn't that difficult, though it doesn't follow standard
option syntax. No hyphens, and options are single words (for flags) or
word pairs (for options with arguments). man setserial on any Linux box.
> Make sure you have the IPCop correctly oriented during the plug and pray
> epoch. :-)
Plug & Play only works 50% of the time. To be precise, the "Plug" almost
always works.
Volker
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