Why are the serial port numbers changing?

2010-07-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
A machine with a Gigabyte g33 motherboard and two serial expansion cards has an interesting situation in which on each boot the serial ports get different tty numbers. Why should they change on each boot, and how can I prevent that? The machine is currently running Ubuntu 10.04. I had run various

Re: Why are the serial port numbers changing?

2010-07-08 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
IIRC correctly, it's due to the new features in Ubuntu (and Fedora): Each time you boot the machine, it re-maps everything, although most of the maps remains the same. You can, after the machine has finished booting, scan the tty for the new serial ports and use them whatever you like, since the

Re: Why are the serial port numbers changing?

2010-07-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 8 July 2010 20:45, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC correctly, it's due to the new features in Ubuntu (and Fedora): Each time you boot the machine, it re-maps everything, although most of the maps remains the same. You can, after the machine has finished booting, scan the tty for

Re: Why are the serial port numbers changing?

2010-07-08 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Dotan, On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:30:16PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 8 July 2010 20:45, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC correctly, it's due to the new features in Ubuntu (and Fedora): Each time you boot the machine, it re-maps everything, although most of the maps remains

serial port problem

2005-01-16 Thread Gershon Geva
Title: serial port problem I am running the stable 2.4.20 kernel and today I came across a curious problem: Trying to run cat /dev/ttyS0 caused the entire machine to hang no keyboard, no mouse - nothing. After disconnecting the device connected (a moveable camera) the problem

Re: serial port problem

2005-01-16 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:40:48PM +0200, Gershon Geva wrote: My guess is that the kernel hangs at the irq call within the serial device. The device configuration is done using tcsetattr(). Any idea what can cause such a behavior? Have you checked /proc/interrupts

Re: A pc card for redirecting the keyboard and display to a serial port.

2004-01-19 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am aware to the fact that Linux can supposedly do that. Do read on for why I wrote supposedly. It does. So do other OSes. BIOS is a valid point though. Does anyone aware to an internal PC card that redirects the keyboard and display to a serial

A pc card for redirecting the keyboard and display to a serial port.

2004-01-18 Thread Shaul Karl
I am aware to the fact that Linux can supposedly do that. Do read on for why I wrote supposedly. Does anyone aware to an internal PC card that redirects the keyboard and display to a serial port, other then http://www.realweasel.com/? This should be similar to what Linux can do to the console

RE: Silicom Ethernet+RS-232 serial port PCMCIA linux driver

2001-11-20 Thread Evgeny Popov
a year ago ). Evgeny -Original Message-From: alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 5:14 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Silicom Ethernet+RS-232 serial port PCMCIA linux driver Please help to find Silicom Ethernet+RS-232 serial port PCMCIA

Silicom Ethernet+RS-232 serial port PCMCIA linux driver

2001-11-19 Thread alex
Please help to find Silicom Ethernet+RS-232 serial port PCMCIA card linux driver(after 2 weeks of searching I'm not sure it does exists) or recommend the way to build it(I'm not too expirienced with that) Thanks

Thinkpad 600X serial port.

2001-03-21 Thread Maxim Kryachko
Hi list. I'm trying to connect Linux box to another one through RS-232 port. The port is enabled and is working in Windows, where it's reported as COM2, irq 3, base port 0x02f8. In linux (RH7) I run tpctl --rs2=COM2 --rs2=irq3 --rs2=0x02f8 setserial /dev/ttyS1 auto_irq autoconfig Setserial

Serial port on IBM Thinkpad.

2001-03-20 Thread Maxim Kryachko
Hi list. For some reason it doesn't want to work... All I need is to connect through null-modem cable to another Linux machine. Tried both 2.2.16 with pcmcia-cs-3.1.99 and 2.4.2 on RH7.0 Any attempts to connect to port in Minicom doesn't succeed. Have I missed something? The laptop has a modem

Re: Serial port on IBM Thinkpad.

2001-03-20 Thread mulix
hi, the serial ports on thinkpads can be configured in bios in three different ways: Enabled, Disabled and OS Controlled. In my experience, switching the serial port from OS Controlled (the default) to Enabled solved the problems - you might want to try that. then again, this might

RE: Serial port on IBM Thinkpad.

2001-03-20 Thread mulix
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Maxim Kryachko wrote: -the serial ports on thinkpads can be configured in bios in three different -ways: Enabled, Disabled and OS Controlled. In my experience, switching the -serial port from OS Controlled (the default) to Enabled solved the -problems - you might want

RE: Serial port on IBM Thinkpad.

2001-03-20 Thread Maxim Kryachko
Title: RE: Serial port on IBM Thinkpad. -Original Message- From: mulix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 6:53 PM To: Maxim Kryachko Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Serial port on IBM Thinkpad. -the serial ports on thinkpads can be configured in bios

serial port

2000-03-05 Thread Hanan Shatz
a problem. I have to connect 2 (or more) computers throw the serial port (RS232). And transfer data from one computer to another. But not through any Ethernet card. I don’t know the command to send data through serial port and how to tell the other computer the receive the data Please, if you can

Re: serial port

2000-03-05 Thread Shaul Karl
learnt anything on computers but I’m a System manager of Novell and NT too) Now I have a problem. I have to connect 2 (or more) computers throw the serial port (RS232). And transfer data from one computer to another. But not through any Ethernet card. I don’t know the command to send data through