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5. What is setserial?

setserial is a program which allows you to look at and change various attributes of a serial device, including its port address, its interrupt, and other serial port options. It was initially written Rick Sladkey, and was heavily modified by Ted T'so tytso@mit.edu, who also maintains it. The newest version is 2.10, and can be found on the Linux FTP sites. You can find out what version you have by running setserial with no arguments.

When your Linux system boots, only ttyS{0-3} are configured, using the default IRQs of 4 and 3. So, if you have any other serial ports provided by other boards or if ttyS{0-3} have a non-standard IRQ, you must use this program in order to configure those serial ports. For the full listing of options, consult the man page.


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