[Voyage-linux] Alix 3d3 serial port

[Russell Lang]

I seem to remember that if you have an Alix board with VGA (such as 3c3 or
3d3), then you should not attempt to use the second serial port because it
conflicts with something the video.  I'm using a USB to 4 serial port
device, but this has required some driver porting because the manufacturer
provides a driver for an old kernel, incompatible with current Voyage
kernel, which is also incompatible with the most recent Linux kernel.

Russell

> Hi,
>
> If you do a standard voyage.update installation and selected ALIX
> profile, the serial port (dev/ttyS0) is assigned to the console terminal
> as defined in /etc/inittab.  ALIX has a DB9 connector and has another
> serial port via connector, you should makes use of the extra connector
> instead of the DB9 which serve the console terminal.
>
> Regards,
> Punky
>
> Michele Petrazzo - Unipex wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> I want to use its the serial port of the alix 3d3 for talk with a modem,
>> but simple "it not talk.". I remove all the "console redirections" on
>> the bios, grub and kernel, but the same.
>> On the instant that I connect the modem serial port to the alix, the
>> "TR" led switch on and this indicate that "it's talking" I also tried
>> with a simple usb to serial converter and in this case it work like
>> perfectly, so the "TR" led switch on only when I start to talk with the
>> modem (with minicom).
>>
>> Someone has already used that serial port for other use than console?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michele
>>
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> Punky
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