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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