Recent changes to bugs

PATCH setserial.8.in

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:23:41 -0000

Patch for setserial.8.in from setserial-2.17.tar.gz dated 2000-02-09
This also is the source for Centos/RHEL 5.5

debian lenny setserial config causes e1000 network failure

david graham — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:41:51 -0000

A customer reported an issue to the e1000 developers at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2834797&group_id=42302&atid=447449, and we determined that root cause was that the setserial configuration for ttyS2 in var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf , which specifies as IOPORT of 0xEC00:

/dev/ttyS2 uart 16950/954 port 0xec00 irq 169 baud_base 115200 spd_normal

The IOPORT address 0xec00 is, on this system, configured by the BIOS as the IOBar for the "INTEL Ethernet controller: ...Intel Corporation 82541GI...".

The result of this conflict was occassional lock up of the INTEL ethernet NIC. The problem was resolved by removing the ttyyS2 reference from var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf.

I am not sure whether setserial determines the autoserial.conf setting itself, or if they are provided by some other SW within the Debian distro, but in this case it was definiely invalid and caused the network failure.

If this is not the the proper place to log this report,.then please advise me of where you think the issue lies and I'll move it elsewhere..

Thanks
Dave

setserial /dev/ttyUSB0 (prolific 2303) -> Cannot get serial

Jakub Klawiter — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:13:36 -0000

Strange thing...

$ setserial -v /dev/ttyUSB0
Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument

I'm using prolific USB-RS232 converter:
# lsmod | grep pl2303
pl2303 16516 0
usbserial 25632 1 pl2303
# uname -a
Linux coyote 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 #1 SMP Thu Jul 24 22:36:31 CEST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

the port is working fine, i can use minicom terminal, GPS software, serial port via WINE probably all but setserial

Any ideas what can be wrong?

baud_base parameter required for >2.6.12 for many ports

Tom Shield — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:14:46 -0000

See

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8458

baud_base parameter is now required for ttyS4 and higher.

Might be good if this defaulted correctly for these ports.

Man page delivered in a wrong directory

Aurelien FORET — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:40:43 -0000

The Makefile tries to install the man page into:
$(INSTALL_DATA) setserial.8 $(DESTDIR)/usr/man/man8
This can be ok if DESTDIR is set to "/", but it's wrong
in other cases.

As a comparison, setserial binary is delivered under:
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) setserial $(DESTDIR)/bin

I attached a patch with a fix.

The -G option does not show divisor

Ian Abbott — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 15:59:59 -0000

The setserial -G option does not output the current
divisor value which is a pain if you use rc.serial's
auto save and restore capabilities as the cust_speed
option _is_ output.

Trivial output typo "infinte" (2.17)

Ian Abbott — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 15:53:38 -0000

setserial-2.17

If the "closing_wait infinite" option has been used on
a serial line, then setserial's "-a" option is used to
display the settings, it is displayed as "closing_wait:
infinte" (sic). i.e. there's an "i" missing.

I said it was trivial... :-)