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Re: [SLE] probably a silly COM port question
  • From: Michael W Cocke <cocke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:00:42 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <q0n9n1t12po12k9g312qadr5msah1uc14g@xxxxxxx>
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:56:20 +0000 (GMT), you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I need to check whether the COM port on my motherboard is being activated
>correctly. I have a UPS connected to it, and the installed software refuses to
>acknowledge that there's anything there.
>
>This is a SuSE 10 installation, on AMD64. I've checked in the BIOS that the
>COM port is "on".
>
>Is there a tool in Yast for looking at COM ports?
>
>Cheers, Jon,

Try miniterm. You should get at least something that looks like line
noise from a UPS.

Mike-

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