Re: Serial Terminals

[ajlewis2@intac.com]

In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> Has anyone configured linux serial terminals.
> I have a specialix ISA card and some terminals.
> How do I configure them.
>  
>  Tt

I'm reading your post on the newsgroup and haven't seen an answer yet; so
I'll offer what little I know.  I've never had to actually do this.

This is from 'man pnpdump'  It looks like you do this to get the settings 
that the BIOS has given your ISA cards.  I know you can also send this info 
to /etc/isapnp.conf, but I thought it might work to just do this command 
and then use setserial.  

--------from the manpage------
-d, --dumpregs
         this will cause pnpdump will dump all the standard configuration 
registers for each board.

     Note that this dump is dumping the physical registers, and will thus
show the settings that have been put in there by the BIOS, or some cards
will put a default setting in. Unused registers read back as 0.
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http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html  Section 7 
especially 7.3 may help.

I saw a post by a guy who gave this terse, but I think accurate explanation 
of how to set up an ISA PnP modem.

---------his explanation-------------
My modem 3COM USR 56K Internal 100% PnP [no jumpers no DIP switches] Model
5685
Windows plays it on COM3 IRC7 3e8
What I did pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/ioports
vi /etc/isapnp.conf
I know the options the modem offers from the dump of pnpdump
I know what ports and what interrupts are not taken from proc files
So I choose 3e8 with IRQ 3 from the option blocks in /etc/isapnp.conf

  From the rc script I run /sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
On the next line
/sbin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 3 port 0x3e8 uart 16550A spd_vhi

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Anita