more on the serial ports

[udo@dinges.xs4all.nl (Udo van den Heuvel)]

Sunday, October 25 1998 23:17, wb2oyc wrote to Udo:

Hello Paul,

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 wo>     There is a file in /etc/rc.boot, 0setserial, and in the comments
 wo> there it even says that initializing the ports is not neccessary for 68k
 wo> machines!  So, I did a fresh boot, and then ran setserial /dev/ttyS0
 wo> spd_normal after logging into root.

setserial can also display what ports are detected, the status, etc. Is the
info displayed this way the same every time setserial is run?

Greetz,
        Udo
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