[NTLUG:Discuss] Kubuntu Serial Ports

[Carl Haddick]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 07:57:03PM -0500, Michael Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 14:57 -0500, Michael Barnes wrote:
> > > I have a machine with an on-board serial port, plus I added a four port
> > > serial card.  I installed Kubuntu 9.04 (latest download this morning).
> >  When
> > > the installation was finished, I did
> > > $ ll /dev/ttyS*

Back in the old days I served up PPP on a Linux box to dial-in
customers, using Boca boards and external modems.  I ran out of I/O
ports I could get away with using at 30 Boca ports plus the four normal
ones.  I just couldn't find enough unencumbered blocks of I/O ports to
get all 32 Boca ports I had on the box.  That was on the king of all
Linux distributions, Slackware.  :-)

I doubt the distribution will make much difference in operation, but a
distribution may or may not locate extra ports without help.

Rc.local and setserial will, though.  :-)

Regards from a lurker,

Carl