Minicom

[highfell]

Am trying to communicate with T68i using infrared minicom. Have downloaded tons of docs eg Linux infrared HOWTO etc. Not much success yet but I will persevere.

CTRL-A seems to be required to access Minicom\'s commands, am I right in assuming that the on a Zaurus 5500, the Ctrl key is the Fn Key ?

I am hoping not as pressing Fn achieves nothing !

I am looking to comminucate via Infrared. Is the serial device :

/dev/ttys1 or /dev/ircomm ??

I also am getting a message that the serial device (whichever one I use) is \'locked

Lots of questions I know ..................

thanks

Nigel Bamber

[lardman]

You (or rather I certainly did) need to use the on screen keyboard to get ctrl.

IR may be locked if you have set the IR applet to be active. Or perhaps you didn\'t close down the last minicom session?

I\'m not sure which device it is, does /dev/iromm exist? what does ls -rtl /dev/ir* show? I\'d go for ircomm myself.


Si

[highfell]

You (or rather I certainly did) need to use the on screen keyboard to get ctrl. 

Ah - but which key(s)

IR may be locked if you have set the IR applet to be active. Or perhaps you didn\'t close down the last minicom session? 

Not sure whether I did or not

I\'m not sure which device it is, does /dev/iromm exist? what does ls -rtl /dev/ir* show? I\'d go for ircomm myself. 

It shows this :

crw-------    1 root     root     161,   0
May  7  2003 /dev/ircomm

So does that imply that I should use ircomm?

Yesterday I seemed to get some form of session going i.e. there was a \'new\' screen at the bottom of the Terminal screen , but then pressing the keys on the Zaurus keyboard didn\'t do anything ??

Nigel

PS As you are online Si, I will try & post a message later under the other topic that we discussed last week or so (serial synchronisation!)

[lardman]

What do you mean \"which key(s)\"? I presume CTRL-A as you say enters command mode or something like that, I used the on-screen keyboard input method to do ctrl-a (or whatever it\'s supposed to be). This assumes you\'re running within Qtopia (so you can use the input methods).

Yep go for /dev/ircomm. I think there was a way of forcing the connection to be closed (but it\'s been a long time since I used it).


Si

[Flash]

To follow up on hte last message, can anyone tell me what he serial port\'s name is? tty1, 2 what? I am trying to get minicom up, and it wants to setup service to a port. I want it to communicate thru the serial port, and if I set it at tty1, the machine comes back and says the port is locked. Who locked it? Where\'s the key?

Also, if that port is unusable, has anyone tried the CF serial card thingie? Does it work?

There, that should enough questions for one silly little message!

[doseas]

Flash, my CF modem is /dev/ttyS3, so I\'d guess that the serial port is /dev/ttyS1 or /dev/ttyS2 (don\'t know if the keyboard is a serial device...).

I\'ve used minicom on my SL-5500 with my Trendnet TFM-CF56 modem & it is functional, though just barely owing to the need to set the terminal font to micro in order to get 80 columns.

[lardman]

Serial is ttyS0

Can\'t remember what IR is, but probably ttyS2.


Simon

[andreasl]

Hello,

infrared ist /dev/ircomm
ctrl keys are  FN and Shift

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