[Xastir] comport under andlinux

[Bob Nielsen]

What does 'dmesg /dev/ttyS*' report?

On Jun 22, 2008, at 8:31 AM, Wes Johnston, AI4PX wrote:

> My serial port is indeed a "real" serial port.  However, on the odd  
> chance
> that my it might be "faked" on my motherboard like some laptops do,  
> I tried
> ttyUSB0, no luck.... that locked up andLinux which finally shut  
> itself down
> after 5 minutes.
>
> I installed minicom and set it up for correct baud rate and port.   
> Tried
> with ttyS0, acts the same as xastir. Seems to open the port but  
> nothing sent
> received.
>
> I think I'm going to carry this over to the andlinux forum b/c this  
> doesn't
> seem xastir related.
>
> Wes
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Richard Polivka, N6NKO <
> r.polivka at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Ok, that's not it.
>>
>> Is your serial port hardware or a USB dongle? If a dongle, look at
>> /dev/ttyUSB0.
>>
>> If you have minicom, jump pins 2 and 3 on the port and see if you  
>> get data
>> back on your port.  At least this would see if linux is seeing the  
>> port and
>> able to use it.
>>
>>
>> 73 from 807,
>>
>> Richard, N6NKO
>>
>>
>> Wes Johnston, AI4PX wrote:
>>
>>> THanks for the suggestion.... ls /dev/ttys0 -la shows crw-rw-rw- for
>>> permissions.  So I guess this isn't it.
>>>
>>> Wes
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Richard Polivka, N6NKO <
>>> r.polivka at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Check permissions. I would set it to 666 / rw-rw-rw- and see. I  
>>>> have had
>>>> issues where that is a fix.
>>>>
>>>> It is a "dangerous" fix because of the permission issues, but it  
>>>> is worth
>>>> the experiment.
>>>>
>>>> 73 from 807,
>>>>
>>>> Richard, N6NKO
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wes Johnston, AI4PX wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Guys, I tried to get xastir to talk to my TNC via ttyS0, and it  
>>>>> appears
>>>>> to
>>>>> open the port, but I never see any traffic coming in.  So I  
>>>>> opened the
>>>>> com1
>>>>> with a windows app and sure enough there's lots of data  
>>>>> streaming in.
>>>>>  While
>>>>> the windows app was open (tieing up the comport), I tried once  
>>>>> again to
>>>>> have
>>>>> xastir open the port and did seems to have opened it even  
>>>>> though it
>>>>> should
>>>>> not have.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there another name for /dev/ttyS0 under andlinux?  What am I  
>>>>> missing?
>>>>>  I
>>>>> see ttys0 in the /dev directory.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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