[CentOS] Re: CentOS-5 Need Help With Serial Ports

Fri Dec 21 22:34:46 UTC 2007
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On Dec 21, 2007 2:03 PM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
>
> I fixed the UART assignment for ttyS0 with
>
> # setserial /dev/ttyS0 UART 16550A
>
> and now my modem's TR signal is high as desired.  My question, am I
> condemned to manually editing the grub.conf file after every kernel update
> or is their a way to configure the system so that I get access to ttyS0
> with the grub entries as distributed via yum?
>

grubby should be smart enough to pull a well formated syntax on a
kernel upgrade. It seems to work for me.. but thats on a limted set of
changes in /etc/grub.conf


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