On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:15 PM, ik <ido...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can use the sysfs for example. It's "actual" path inthe file system > that represent information about the system of Linux, so any real COM port > will have a directory with the device name and inside information about the > port itself. > > I do not know regarding COM how it will look like, but for example for > ethernet it looks like this (just for the sake of understanding): > /sys/class/net/ > > For COM I guess it will be /sys/class/tty/ (Not sure tough, I do not have a > machine with COM at all to check it on). > i have many files under /sys/class/tty which are not serial ports i also have 4 which are ttyS0..ttyS3, although i do not have any serial port connected and there is no link to the actual dev (although there is a file which includes the major and minor device numbers)
thanks, erez. > > Ido > http://ik.homelinux.org/ > > > 2010/8/31 Erez D <erez0...@gmail.com> > >> hi >> >> I am looking for a simple way to know which serial ports i have. >> I want to have a list of all serial ports, either onboard, via usb, via >> bluetooth etc ... >> I'm looking for a better way than scanning /dev/ttyS* /dev/ttyUSB* >> /dev/usb/... etc ... >> >> >> In cygwin I just look under >> /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/HARDWARE/DEVICEMAP/SERIALCOMM/ >> is there somthing similiar in linux (probably somewhere in /proc) ? >> >> thanks, >> erez. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> >
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