serial port device detection

[Johannes Ramm-Ericson_1]

Hi!

I am looking at redesigning / reconfiguring our Ignite-UX setup for HP-UX 11i. Currently we have a truly annoying problem with the spaceballs / spacemice that our CAD engineers use. We would like to have the Ignite installation check what device is connected on the serial port and subsequently set up the device files accordingly. So, my question is basically; does anyone have any experience with this? How have you solved it (if it even is possible in the first place)?

TIA,
Johannes

PS. Of course, the thought has struck me that I should just standardize across the board and say that spaceballs go in one port and spacemice go in another... It's just that this seems like a problem that should be solved technically, not manually.

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

I have no experience on this, but You might try using cu to try getting a device string from the serial port.
somehow :)

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
I have seen a similar problem (In my case it was a digitizer). The serial port was not correct configured after restoring from an Ingite archive.

I don't belive there is any "automatic" aolution for that problem. Maybe you can create some kind of post_install script that check what is connected to the port and do the configuration.