Re: Making Device Fiiles

[Rafael <raffi@ark.linwin.com>]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:45:28PM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Janina,
> This site appears to be mostly about a special card which they
> developed, and the software appears to be designed to work with this
> card. I'm just looking for a program that will work with the modem I
> already have hooked up. Minicom keeps complaining about one thing and
> another. There is no global minicomrc.dfl file, and if I try minicom -s
> it won't do anything. I tried making a link to ttys1, but that doesn't
> help. It just gives a different error message.

You quoted ttys1, note it should be ttyS0 that's capital S.

I just tested minicom on y system as root. The sequence to change the 
parameters is
Ctrl-A z p a q

Ctrl-A o (scrol down 2 lines for serial port configuration) where you can 
make changes. Under A is Serial Device : /dev/ttyS0 (on my system)
E -    Bps/Par/Bits       : 9600 8N1
F - Hardware Flow Control : Yes
G - Software Flow Control : No

As root you should be able to create minicomrc.dfl. If you want to use 
minicom program you might need to change the ownership of /dev/ttyS0 to 
other user or chmod 666 it.

If minicom doesn't work you may try program kermit. I used both to connect
PC with linux to serial ports on Sun servers.


> John
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Janina
> Sajka wrote:
> 
> > John:
> >
> > Can you use the source available at:
> >
> > http://www.zapatatelephony.org/
> >
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm trying to set up minicom to work with a special modem for
> > > communicating with the deaf relay service and with deaf friends and
> > > customers. The modem is in serial port 2. The parameters are 300 baud, 8
> > > data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity, half duplex. The 300 baud speed is
> > > standard for this application, since people are just typing. When I do
> > > minicom -s
> > > as root, I get the message that it cannot find /dev/modem. So how do I
> > > make this file? I am using Redhat 7.1.
> > > Thanks.
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> 
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Rafael