[Imc-tech] Linux box up front? Notes from tonight's meeting...

[David Young]

Have you tried setting the serial ports with kernel parameters or the
setserial utility or both?

Dave

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:40:26PM -0500, Mike Perry wrote:
> Thus spake Paul Riismandel (p-riism at uiuc.edu):
> 
> > Travas said he didn't finish the linux box up front.  Who did?  Mike Perry?
> >
> > If whoever did it will step forward we'd appreciate it... especially since 
> > it needs to be fixed and Dan and I couldn't find a boot disk or Red Hat CDs 
> > anywhere 'round the IMC.
> Yeah, there seems to be something really weird going on with the serial
> port.. Every other reboot it gets detected as having only either com1
> and 2, or com 3 and 4.. I have no idea the cause of this.. I've never
> seen anything like it.. Has it still been doing this?
> 
> When I get some time I'll put a new kernel on there and see if that does
> anything for us.
> 
> Other than that it everything should be working, no?
>  
> > Dan and I unanimously decided to give Tech a two week vacation since we're 
> > pretty thin right now anyway.
> > 
> > We will meet back in THREE weeks on AUGUST 22 -- 6:00 PM. It would be great 
> > to get the whole tech crew together to plot our efforts for the coming months.
> > 
> > Top on our next agenda: unifying our approach to workstations and 
> > servers.  Let's get all our passwords listed in one secure place, make sure 
> > we have boot and distribution disks for all OSes in use, deal with the junk 
> > heap in the back, figure out what else needs to be done.
> >
> > thanks-- see y'all in three weeks!
> 
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