[Voyage-linux] Alix 3d3 serial port

[Russell Lang]

I seem to remember that on the Alix boards with VGA (3c3, 3d3), you should
not attempt to use the second serial port due to conflicts.

I used an external USB to 4 port serial adapter.  Check driver
availability carefully. My adapter comes with a Linux driver for an old
kernel, incompatible with the Voyage kernel, which is incompatible with
the latest Linux kernel (2.6.29).  This required some driver hacking to
make it work.

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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