No serial ports on AIX 4.3
Helge Blischke
h.blischke at srz.de
Sat Jan 22 09:10:25 PST 2005
Michael Sweet wrote:
>
> Anonymous wrote:
> > OS: AIX 4.3.3, Serial Ports: digiboard port devices
> >
> > The serial ports are defined as /dev/lp17, /dev/lp18, etc...
> > When I run lpinfo -v, I don't have any serial ports listed.
> > Is CUPS looking for a special naming convention? The backend
> > "serial" executable exists...
>
> The backend is probably not scanning those device files; please file
> a RFE at:
>
> http://www.cups.org/str.php
>
> and provide a list of the device names we should look for...
>
As a workaround, it *might* work to create symbolic links ala
/def/tty... -> /dev/lp... .
Haven't tried it on out (quite old) AIX system).
Helge
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