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Title: Serial Connection Under Opie
Post by: petya on September 06, 2005, 12:14:26 pm

Hi all!

I have switched to oz/opie from cacko, and I want to use my c760 as a serial terminal. Under cacko, it worked. I installed microcom, it probes devices /dev/ttyS0..2, but without success. When i try microcom -D/dev/ttySA0, it says cannot open device.

Is minicom available for opie? Or can I build a package from it?

Title: Serial Connection Under Opie
Post by: Hrw on September 06, 2005, 02:56:29 pm

vi /etc/inittab and comment line which run getty on serial port

Title: Serial Connection Under Opie
Post by: abject on September 13, 2005, 02:04:47 am

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vi /etc/inittab and comment line which run getty on serial port
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Very timely! I was just getting ready to fire up my AIRCable and try it with my new BT GPS. Sorry to be so thick... I see two places in my (Hentges-Collie-3.5.3-Opie) /etc/inittab where getty is (might be) run:

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l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 6
# Normally not reached, but fallthrough in case of emergency.
z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
S:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 ttyS0
# /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels.
#
# The "id" field MUST be the same as the last
# characters of the device (after "tty").
#
# Format:
#  :::
#
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
# 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
...Do you mean comment out this line:

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S:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 ttyS0
Thanks for your help!

Oh!... And reboot, after?

Title: Serial Connection Under Opie
Post by: Hrw on September 13, 2005, 11:06:40 am

that line and reboot

Title: Serial Connection Under Opie
Post by: abject on September 14, 2005, 01:13:34 am

Worked like charm. Thanks again, hrw.

Dumped microcom - it has zero documentation beyond "-h". picocom is the (well-documented) bomb.

Now... what GPS application to fool with....

- Larry.