[Xastir] Xastir 1.9.9 help

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Michael Lewis wrote:

> dmesg | grep tty
> [    0.001598] console [tty0] enabled
> [    0.814394] serial8250: ttyS3 at I/O 0x2e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> [    0.814758] 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x220 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> [  709.343826] usb 2-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
>
> should I be using ttyUSB0 or one of the ttyS0 ports?

Depends.  Are you hooking up to a DE-9 on the back of the computer,
or a USB->Serial adapter?

If the former, then use /dev/ttyS0 for what would be COM1 in
Windows, /dev/ttyS1 for COM2, etc.

If the latter, then use /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, etc.

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