[Xastir] Good serial port comm program for linux

[John Ronan]

Have a look at the permissions on your ports... i.e.
j0n at ns1:/$ cd /dev
j0n at ns1:/dev$ ls -al /dev/ttyS?
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 2009-03-20 08:53 /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 2009-03-15 21:23 /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 66 2009-03-14 10:53 /dev/ttyS2
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 2009-03-14 10:53 /dev/ttyS3
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 68 2009-03-14 10:53 /dev/ttyS4
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 69 2009-03-20 08:48 /dev/ttyS5
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 70 2009-03-18 22:38 /dev/ttyS6
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 71 2009-03-14 11:18 /dev/ttyS7
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 72 2009-03-14 10:53 /dev/ttyS8
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 73 2009-03-14 10:53 /dev/ttyS9
j0n at ns1:/dev$

Above, all the ports are owned by user root and group dialout.

I'm running ubuntu here, so I simply did
sudo adduser j0n dialout

to add the user 'j0n' to the dialout group

John


On 20 Mar 2009, at 04:43, Dale Seaburg wrote:

> OK guys,  I'm getting thoroughly frustrated with minicom.  It's not  
> minicom's fault, but the stupid security on the serial ports.  My  
> lack of linux experience is showing through.  I need to be able to  
> talk to my tnc until I get things ironed out and working like I  
> want.  I don't want to reboot into windows just to run Hyperterm  
> (which works EVERY time) to help configure the tnc.  I'd like to  
> stay in linux.  I have used minicom in years gone by, but I can't  
> seem to find the right combo to get it to talk to COM1 (tty0?).  If  
> I don't run with sudo, I get security errors accessing just about  
> any serial port I try.
>
> Help!
>
> frustrated-73's - Dale.  KG5LT
>
>
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