RE: [cobalt-developers] PCI Serial Card

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<snip>
> Obviously the main problem is the Qube only has 1 serial 
> port. Both the
> modem and UPS software work fine through the on-board serial 
> port, and the
> UPS software can easily be configured to use a different port 
> other than
> ttyS0
> 
> Does anyone know of a PCI serial card compatible with the Qube3.
> 
> My prefered solution would be an Internal serial card.
> 
> I've tried a PCI serial board, but it required setserial to 
> configure it
> which isn't shipped in the Qube's software.
> 
> But anything which works will be appreciated.
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I've never tried this myself, so unsure how the results will go, but your first suggestion of a PCI serial card should do the trick.
You should be able to install setserial from rpm by doing:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/6.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/setserial-2.15-3.i386.rpm

And then continue to configure the card. (I use a PCI serial card at home on a SuSE system and had no problems activating the card for use in Linux)

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Andy
andy@xxxxxxxxxx
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