Re: [Ltsp-discuss] serial port how to on clients

[AJ M. <aj-...@ad...>]

On Tuesday 26 December 2006 23:56, Barry Cisna wrote:
> Could someone give a good howto ,on how to get a serial port to activate
> on a client. I'm using K12LTSP v 5.0. I added the "MODULE_01 = "serport"
> for this client in the /etc/lts.conf file. WHne the client boots up I do
> see "Serport module loaded". And when i do a lsmod, from a shell on the
> client, i see serport listed as a loaded module for the client. But,,,
> problem is im trying to use an old Fuji mx-1200 dig cam on the client and
> it never shows that there is an avaiavable serial to choose from,,when
> going through the Digikam wizard,,so hence no worky on the client.

I expect that you have actually got the serial port working just fine... the 
trouble is, unless I'm mistaken, I think you're running digikam on the 
SERVER.  Of course, as it's running on the server (though displaying on the 
client), it's not likely to see the camera which is attached to the client...

You can actually make something like this work with the equipment you have, 
but it's a not inconsiderable effort.  You need to get your serial app 
running as a "local app" on the client - I've succesfully set up serial 
communications from an LTSP client with kermit running as a local app.

Of course, if anyone has any other ideas for serial port over LAN support I'd 
be delighted to hear them...

Cheers,

AJ