Setserial sets and/or reports the configuration information associated with a serial port. This information includes what I/O port and which IRQ a particular serial port is using.
This version has a completely new approach to configuration, so if you have a setup other than the standard ttyS0 and 1, you will have to get your hands dirty.
By default, only ttyS0-ttyS3 (COM1-4 in DOS/Windows terminology) are configured by the kernel, using IRQ 3 and 4. If you have other serial ports (such as an AST Fourport card), or if you have mapped the IRQs differently (perhaps COM3 and 4 to other IRQs to allow concurrent access with COM1 and 2) then you must have this package.
USB
The usb-storage and/or usbserial modules must be loaded, whether manually or by HAL is up to you and/or your system.
# modprobe usb-storage # modprobe usbserial $ sleep 6 # the modem may take a while to initialize $ ls /dev/ttyUSB*
You should see three renditions of ttyUSB. If not, we will get to that later. This is a "Quick Start" after all, no? The ports:
ttyUSB0 - The modem ttyUSB1 - USB? ttyUSB2 - Nothing
So, you can use Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 in your wvdial.conf file.
See ["DialupModemHowto/Huawei"]
Options
seserial with -g option help to find out what physical serial ports your Linux box has.
Programs
Once serial ports identified you can configure Linux box using various utilities:
- ["wvdial"] or other GUI dial up networking program - a PPP dialer with built-in intelligence, installed in Ubuntu.
- ["minicom"] -the best friendly serial communication program for controlling modems and connecting to dump devices.
- getty / agetty - agetty opens a tty port, prompts for a login name and invokes the /bin/login command.
- ["grub"] configuration - To configure serial port as the system console.