Re: Serial Terminals
oh so is your card pnp ?
its easy. just run pnpdump and send its output to isapnp.conf
./pnpdump > isapnp.conf
then edit the file and uncomment the configuration you desire.
man isapnp.conf will help u a lot.
dont forget, uou must run isapnp every time you reboot.
if that is not done automatically you should set it. you can always do it
manually of course. You must also edit /etc/serial.conf, to make reference
to the pnp com ports you have just created. Because the
com port driver does not detect pnp com ports unless they are at the
usual addresses 3f8 2f8 3e8 2e8. I also assume that you isa card has
multiple ports and I think that needs a special driver, not the standard
serial.o. man setserial will tell you something about this
regards
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 ajlewis2@intac.com wrote:
> 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.
> -------------------------
>
> 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
>
> ------------
>
> Anita
>
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