[Gpephone-devel] VMWare images

[Nils Faerber]

Dan Jiang schrieb:
> Hi, Florian,
I'll try on behalf of him ;)

> A little question about VMWare image:
> 
> In GPEPhoneDemo.vmx, there is a sentense:
> serial0.fileName="/dev/GSM-Modem"
> 
> And in explanation,
> "The first serial port of the virtual PC (/dev/ttyS0) is linked to
> /dev/GSM-Modem
> to which you can link the device of your real GSM modem connected to your
> PC."
> 
> Not very sure of the sentense.
> If the real port of GSM device connected to PC is /dev/ttyS1,
> do we need to manually execute
> 
> "ln -sf /dev/ttyS1 /dev/GSM-Modem "?

Yes, right, that's the idea.

Reason for this is that it can be safely assumed that most modems will
be connected through a serialport, be it physically RS232, a USB-RS232
adaptor or Bluetooth-RFCOMM. All three types have different device
names, namely ttyS, ttyUSB and rfcomm.
Since the VMware player does not allow to change those configs we simply
took a new unused name, GSM-Modem, and require to link to the real
device from there. So the VMware does not need to be changed and will
work with any serial attached GSM modem.

Cheers
  nils faerber

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