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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: virtualbox - serial port
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:21:09
Message-Id: k3i0go$a6d$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtualbox - serial port by Mick
1 On 2012-09-21, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 18 Sep 2012 18:49:33 Joseph wrote:
3 >> On 09/18/12 15:59, Grant Edwards wrote:
4 >>
5 >> [snip]
6 >>
7 >> >> I'm in group "tty", so I can not figure it out why virtualbox is
8 >> >> complaining.
9 >> >
10 >> >What happens when you do "cat /dev/ttyS0"?
11 >>
12 >> It is working know. It was my error :-/
13 >> I had it selected "host pipe" and it should be "host device'
14 >> One of those days :-)
15 >
16 > Mine looks like this:
17 >
18 > $ ls -l /dev/ttyS0
19 > crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Sep 21 06:16 /dev/ttyS0
20 >
21 > and the user (me) is a member of the uucp group. Not sure if this is
22 > a more correct way to configure it ...
23
24 Adding the user to the group that owns the device is the usual way to
25 do give users access to hardware.
26
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