[Gpephone-devel] VMWare images

[JIANG Dan RD-ILAB-PEK]

Hi, Nils

Thanks for your detailed explanation.

:)



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From: gpephone-devel-bounces at linuxtogo.org [mailto:gpephone-devel-bounces at linuxtogo.org] On Behalf Of Nils Faerber
Sent: 2007年3月15日 18:27
To: Dan Jiang
Cc: gpephone-devel at linuxtogo.org
Subject: Re: [Gpephone-devel] VMWare images

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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