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From: james <garftd@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Quad UART PCIe Adapter (Oxford-Chipset) seems (not?) to work? Check?
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:03:41
Message-Id: b4cbef52-d62a-1e79-09fa-3dc9f13c1b41@verizon.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Quad UART PCIe Adapter (Oxford-Chipset) seems (not?) to work? Check? by Laurence Perkins
1 On 4/2/19 2:12 PM, Laurence Perkins wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 16:58 -0500, Dale wrote:
5 >> Laurence Perkins wrote:
6 >>>> You can get pin status with
7 >>>> statserial /dev/ttyS9
8 >>>>
9 >>> I hate to butt in, but statserial seems like it would be quite
10 >>> useful... And yet I can't figure out which package it's in on
11 >>> Gentoo.
12 >>> It's not in setserial, doesn't have its own package, and isn't
13 >>> discoverable via eix or pfl... Is there an ebuild hidden
14 >>> somewhere?
15 >>> Or do I need to hunt it down by hand?
16 >>>
17 >>> LMP
18 >>
19 >> I tried to figure out what package has it but am having no luck. I'm
20 >> wondering if a USE flag is required to enable this to be included?
21 >> If
22 >> that USE flag is disabled by default, then it wouldn't be available
23 >> on
24 >> most systems unless someone knew what it was and enabled it. If it
25 >> is a
26 >> USE flag, I'm having no luck finding it either.
27 >>
28 >> Dale
29 >>
30 >> :-) :-)
31 >>
32 >
33 > If you installed it via portage then doing:
34 > qfile `which statserial`
35 > should tell you what package it came from.
36 >
37 > If that finds nothing then it got installed by some other means and
38 > probably isn't packaged for Gentoo.
39 >
40 >
41 > LMP
42 >
43 >
44
45
46 This man page list the author(s). Might not be too difficult to roll an
47 ebuild for it. It's under a gnu license.
48
49 https://linux.die.net/man/1/statserial
50
51
52 Vintage 1994::
53
54 https://boutell.com/lsm/lsmbyid.cgi/001600
55
56 https://linux.die.net/man/1/statserial
57
58 hth,
59 James