On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 16:01 +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Talk about an uphill battle, I can't figure out for the life of me which > > serial ports are valid on my falcon under linux. Most of the kernels > > don't even seem to have atari_scc.o but the one I ahd does. When I load > > Atari serial got dropped from the official tree long time ago (because we > were stubborn and didn't adapt our drivers to the new linux way, once > Linus had grokked there is serial beyond the 16650). I ported the SCC > serial driver (the only one useful on the Falcon) to 2.4 using the generic > serial helper routines, which means the device numbers got changed. The > old device names were chosen to correspond to the serial1/2, modem1/2 and > LAN port scheme. The new device names are just ttyS0 and ttyS1, with ttyS1 > being the DSUB 9 pin regular serial connector. I cannot remember if that > one is shared with the LAN port connector, but I have made no provisions > to switch the connectors on the fly anyway. > > > it nothing happens and I don't know what ports are there. If I > > cat /dev/ttyS* (any of em) I get invalid device or device not found or > > something of that nature. > > ttyS1 should work after inserting the module. Maybe you have module > loading errors? > > > Any suggestions? I'd love to get pppd installed so I can start building > > up my package list and getting the system updated. > > /sbin/slattach -L -p slip -s 115200 /dev/ttyS1 is what works for me. The > -L meaning no modem control lines to watch out for. > > Michael
No module loading error whatsoever. I did try "cat /dev/ttyS1" and it didn't work, but I'll give it a shot. The module load gave no output at all neither ont he console nor in dmesg but it loaded. Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
