what name does com1 rs232 get in F16+ ?

Zoltan Boszormenyi zboszor at freemail.hu
Mon May 28 09:05:27 UTC 2012


2012-05-28 10:17 keltezéssel, Fernando Cassia írta:
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> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk 
> <mailto:alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>> wrote:
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>     There is a procedure for identifying some serial devices via magic PnP
>     sequences and it ought to be able to identify some modems that way. You
>     can't however randomly assume.
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> Maybe this explains why I'm unable to access the serial port... once again SELinux more 
> a pain in the ass rather than of real use...
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> http://www.ukraa.com/www/faq/75-starbar/102-fedora15rxtx.html
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>     Fedora 15 Unable to connect to serial port
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> Written by Administrator Thursday, 25 August 2011 20:16
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> Fedora 15 fails to connect to USB - Serial port or inbuilt serial port
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> Fedora 15 comes with a restrictive user policy.
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> Your user account need to be in the dialout group you can accomplish this with the 
> command below run as the root user.
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> usermod -a -G dialout <username>
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What does it have to do with SELinux? It's the plain old UNIX permissions.
In the old(ish) times, you had to be in the "uucp" group to accomplish the same.

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