[openbeos] Re: Serial port driver

  • From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:48:13 -0500

Serial and parallel are not in NewOS, at this point.
If you want to tackle that, cool - mail me privately.
>Hello,
>
>I was wondering if anyone is already working on a serial port driver for 
>openbeos, and whether it is going to be fully compatible with the BeOS zz 
>(serial port) driver? There are some strange ioctl calls I (and I read some 
>others) cannot explain, which will take quite some time debugging. 
>I need this serial port driver to be able to use a modem on a cardbus card. I 
>already got the modem set-up, but there's no way to link the IO/IRQ to the 
>BeOS serial zz driver. Which leaves me to write a serial driver myself and 
>just publish it in /dev/ports , so that Dial up networking can simply use it.
>I'll be working on it anyway, and eventually it might be of use to openbeos.
>
>Martijn Coenen 
>
>




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