Re: [SLE] Problems with serial port/suse 8
Since no one seemed to notice this one let me clarify. My machine is an HP Pavillion 5270 running Suse 8. I'm trying to get the serial port to talk to my palm device. On Sunday 29 September 2002 12:20, Nick Selby wrote:
Hi, I have tried plugging my palm into the port (the palm works, as they always say, under a windows machine (a different one, not on this box)) and it is not recognized. I went into hwinfo and don't see the port listed. Perhaps that was a stupid place to look but it's where I looked...
Can anyone give me some ideas about how to tell (a) if the port is working and (b) to troubleshoot the connection process?
Thanks in advance, Nick
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Hi Even that I have never worked with palm, I could have a try... In "/var/log/messages" what do You see when You try to communicate with palm? Run "dir /dev/ttyS*", and have a look at access rights (owner, group and rw-access). I have crw-rw---- root, uucp on my computer. You should at least belong to group uucp to be able to access the serial port. ttyS0 equals to com1 in DOS. I have Compaq aero 1500, and just did a test. I could see communication with "minicom" from ttyS0, 9600 baud, so it should work if I had some software that talks Compaq... but I don't. Jaska. On Monday 30 September 2002 09:10, Nick Selby wrote:
Since no one seemed to notice this one let me clarify. My machine is an HP Pavillion 5270 running Suse 8. I'm trying to get the serial port to talk to my palm device.
Thanks, i'll have a look! On Monday 30 September 2002 09:09, jaakko tamminen wrote:
Hi
Even that I have never worked with palm, I could have a try...
In "/var/log/messages" what do You see when You try to communicate with palm?
Run "dir /dev/ttyS*", and have a look at access rights (owner, group and rw-access). I have crw-rw---- root, uucp on my computer.
You should at least belong to group uucp to be able to access the serial port.
ttyS0 equals to com1 in DOS.
I have Compaq aero 1500, and just did a test. I could see communication with "minicom" from ttyS0, 9600 baud, so it should work if I had some software that talks Compaq... but I don't.
Jaska.
On Monday 30 September 2002 09:10, Nick Selby wrote:
Since no one seemed to notice this one let me clarify. My machine is an HP Pavillion 5270 running Suse 8. I'm trying to get the serial port to talk to my palm device.
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