Philip Webb wrote: >There have been some changes to what's included in 'system' recently. >After checking /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages & various 'virtuals' >it seemed that pkg 'setserial' had been dropped from 'system', >so after trying 'qpkg -I -q setserial' without anything listed, >I unmerged it (after having a quick look at its man file); >I also deleted 'serial' from /etc/init.d , which seemed unnecessary now. >The system rebooted, but there was a series of warning messages, >which disappeared after I remerged 'setserial' & rebooted again. > >What is 'setserial' needed for ? If its omission causes warnings, >why has it been dropped from 'system' ? Anyone have useful info ? >
As far as I can remember, setserial is used for some internal modems (real modems, not win-modems), because the system didn't find its virtual (as you cannot attach any other device to it) serial communication port, that would be normally ttyS2 or ttyS3, if you don't disable your embedded physical serial ports in the BIOS. If you use dial-out ppp or any other communication with a modem, you will probably need setserial. Francisco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
