[ale] Two port serial board

[Calvin Harrigan]

On 11/12/2013 3:09 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> On 11/12/2013 02:56 PM, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>> My memory is cloudy, but don't you have to tell the kernel about
>> serial ports that are not the standard com1->com4?
>
> Apparently not.  All I see are reads.  No attempt to do anything beyond
> opening the TTY and setting it up.  I tried that on my own without this
> program and it did not work.
>
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I was thinking something along the lines of "setserial".  Does the 
reading 'enable' the port somehow? Just a guess.  What brand are the boards?