> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Ackermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 12:08 PM > Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] Boca Board BB1008..??? > > Hello John, > > Well I did a locate serial.c | more, to see where the serial.c file was > located, mine is located in the > /usr/src/kernel-source2.2.5/drivers/char/serial.c... > > So I looked through the entire script, and not one word is mentioned about > BOCA...Only Multiport AST fourport board ...Hummmm > But yet in the serial.conf script it does mention the Boca BB1008, this is > where one uncomments out the ttyS16 through ttyS23... >
[15:22:07 /tmp]$ head /etc/serial.conf ###PORT STATE GENERATED USING AUTOSAVE-ONCE### ###AUTOSAVE-ONCE### ###AUTOSAVE### # # If you want AUTOSAVE switched on, make the AUTOSAVE line above the # FIRST line of the file. # # AUTOSAVE-ONCE, if it is first, will save the port status and then move # itself to the second line of the file (thus effectively stopping further # AUTOSAVEs). [15:22:14 /tmp]$ > I can send you the script if you like, so you can view it for yourself, > maybe you can come up with another idea...??? > > I sure would like to get the Bocaboard BB1008 working shortly, before I > decide that it won't work, and have to send it back... > > Any help from you, or anyone would be appreciated, thanks... > Perhaps you have changed the settings of the Bocaboard BB1008 so that the recommendations of /etc/serial.conf does not fit your machine? What is the output of setserial -ga /dev/ttyS* ? Modem-Howto? Serial-Howto? > Larry Shields WD9ESU > AMPRnet: wd9esu.ampr.org IPaddr 44.92.0.60 > BBS E-Mail: wd9esu@ wd9esu.ampr.org > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ:6221703 > > > I've been using a Boca 8 port board for years, starting back with Linux > > version 0.99 or something. It may have gotten easier via compiler > options, > > but the worst case is to go into the serial.c file in the kernel source > > code and uncomment a couple of lines identified around "IFDEF_BOCA" and > > then create the 8 serial devices in /dev -- IIRC, they are ttyS16 through > > ttyS23. Works like a charm, using a single IRQ. > > > > 73, > > Johh N8UR > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---- > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Larry Shields" > writes: > > >Hello all, > > > > > >Just a quick question, has anyone purchased a 'Boca Board BB1008', it is > an > > >8-port serial board, and have you had success in getting it to work, > > >connected to TNC's running under say Debian/Linux 2.2.5... > > > > > >If you have I'd appreciate in hearing what is needed for it to work, or > if > > >it will not work for this purpose...??? > > > > > >Thanks 73 de > > > > > >Larry Shields WD9ESU > > >AMPRnet: wd9esu.ampr.org IPaddr 44.92.0.60 > > >BBS E-Mail: wd9esu@ wd9esu.ampr.org > > >E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >ICQ:6221703 > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >nos-bbs mailing list > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >http://hydra.carleton.ca/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs > > > > _______________________________________________ > > nos-bbs mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://hydra.carleton.ca/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com