On Sunday 08 July 2001 22:33, you wrote:
> On Monday 09 July 2001 08:06, Richard Thompson wrote:
> > ... have you used "setserial" to check whether or not your various
> > distros have correctly initialized the serial port - with particular
> > attention to the UART?
>
> oooh, you are very right.
>
> On a col distro, /etc/init.d/rc.serial is disabled and does nothing.
> Perhaps SuSe work this differently? (rc.serial incidentally is a throwback
> script to the old stallion and other multi uart cards we used to use, when
> the world was young and rosy)
Speaking of young and rosy - I still run a personal bbs off of an "extra"
couple of serial ports on my server. I use the setserial command from
rc.local rather than rc.serial. P.S. If you want to recapture your youth I
do have a PCB 4 Digiboard (complete with octopus) and a couple of RocketPort
cards lying about <grin>. Will tade for beer.
- Rich Thompson
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