Subject: Re: ipcop and serial ports
From: Adam Elkins (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 15:22:19 AKDT
I'm just courious, why has everyone switch to ipcop? Is it really better than Smoothwall?
What are the pros/cons?
Adam (still rockin an authentic AKLUG smoothie)
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:57:19 -0800
Jim Gribbin <jewelrysupplier@gci.net> wrote:
>
> Nice try, but ipcop doesn't have a serial.conf. At least not in /etc.
> I'm still looking to see if I can find it somewhere else as ipcop seems
> to have moved or hidden some of scripts for security reasons.
>
> I may take a shot at just creating one and see if it uses it.
>
> Jim Gribbin
>
> On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 11:14, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> > Greetings Jim and all,
> >
> > Under the 2.4 kernel, serial port setup is handled in a new and
> > better way, really :)
> >
> > Look in the file /etc/serial.conf
> >
> > Read the man page for setserial
> >
> > You will probably have to edit serial.conf to reflect the desired
> > ttyS<n>, IRQ, and I/O address. The card you are talking about may be
> > listed in serial.conf. In any case, look for the stanzas that set
> > the ports to the ones you are getting and edit them to the ones you
> > want.
> >
> > fgd.
> >
> > On 27 Apr 2003 22:26:57 -0800
> > Jim Gribbin <jgribbin@alaska.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I don't think I'm doing a good job at describing my serial port
> > > problem, so I'll try a little different tact.
> > >
> > > I have a pci high speed port card with 2-serial & 1-parallel
> > > ports.
> > >
> > > Under the 2.2 kernel, /proc/pci showed an unknown card mfg'd by
> > > Timedia in a particular slot with 3-ports and an irq. Apparently
> > > because the card was unknown, Linux did nothing with the ports and
> > > I could assign the ports using setserial's port option to whatever
> > > available /dev/ttySx were available.
> > >
> > > Under the 2.4 kernel, Linux seems to know what the card is.
> > > /proc/pci now shows a multi-port card mfg'd by Timedia (I don't
> > > recall the exact wording, but the card is now known) with 2-serial
> > > ports and a parallel port. Because Linux now knows the card, it is
> > > assigning the ports for me. But I want them assigned elsewhere and
> > > Linux won't let me do it has them already assigned.
> > >
> > > Clear as mud now? :-)
> > >
> > > Jim Gribbin
> > >
> > >
> > >
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