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Re: STB 4COM card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tdukes@netside.com)
Sat Nov 2 07:39:20 1996
From: tdukes@netside.com
In-Reply-To: <199611021148.GAA02469@sojurn.lns.pa.us>
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 07:22:58 -0500 (EST)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Cc: Mike Sangrey <mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us>
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Thanks for the help...its never too late. I've only been using
Linus since 3/96 and the terminology still gets me. The HOWTO's
(some of them) _assume_ more than they should (for beginners).
I ran a multiline WildCAt BBS for years and am familiar with
modem communications under DOS, sharing IRQ's, etc. I liked
doing that, but I LOVE Linux!!! Its is a challenge and very
flexible. Just got too much DOS left in the brain....
I hope to install the card today, but I want to watch a couple
of ballgames today and if I get started, I will tinker ALL day!
Again, thanks for your help.
On 02-Nov-96 Mike Sangrey wrote:
>>tdukes@netside.com wrote:
>> Thanks for the tip. Just a couple of questions about how you
>> set it up.
>>
>> 1) How many COM ports are you using? Its appears by the rc.serial
>> you sent there are 6.
>>
>> 2) Is it necessary for me to diable the COM ports on my motherboard?
>>
>
>Usually, but here, I'm not the expert.
>
>> 3) Will Red Hat recognize the rc.serial file? If so, where did you
>> place it? /etc/rc.d/rc.serial?
>>
>Since RedHat uses the sysV like boot up procedure (the one a particularly
>like), I would recommend placing a serial.init in /etc/rc.d/init.d. And then
>making symlinks from the appropriate runlevel directories to serial.init. Do
>run levels 2, 3 and 5. I would make the sequence number fairly late in the
>process.
>
>Something like:
> cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
> ln -s ../init.d/serial.init S94serial
>
>for runlevel 3.
>
>Regarding what serial.init should look like, just follow the lead of another
>example in /etc/rc.d/init.d, say, maybe lpd.init or portmap.init. Find a
>simple example and just mimic it.
>
>> 4) Are all your jumpers on the 4COM card on IRQ 10?
>>
>> Sorry to ask all these questions, but I'm pretty new to Linux and alot
>> of the terminology blows me away.
>
>>
>
>FYI: When linux boots up the process called 'init' runs. It executes
>'/etc/rc.d/rc'. 'rc' in turn runs the scripts in '/etc/rc.d/rc#.d' where '#'
>is the current runlevel. If you don't know what 'runlevel' means, then take a
>quick look at the comments at the top of /etc/inittab. 'rc' will run the
>'S##whatever' scripts in numerical order on startup.
>
>Suggestion: leave run level #1 alone. That ensures you have a safety net.
>
>Hope that helps and I'm not too late to help.
>--
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