Serial port question

I'm porting a small application that reads some temperature probes conected to srvial ports from HP-UX to Debian Woody. It opens up the serial ports, sends a few charatcers, and then listens for the reply. What serial port device names should I be using for the 2 onboard serail ports on my mother

Serial Port Question

My system doesn't recognize ttyS0 (which makes it difficult to synch my Palm Pilot). I'm running Debian 2.2.r3 (Potato) on a Dell Inspirion 7500 with a PCMCIA modem card on /dev/ttyS2. I'm at a loss on what to do from here. The information I've been able to gather so far is as follows: bash-2.03$

Trick serial port question!

I need to be able to open a dumb-terminal session to a serial port, while forcing RTS low. Strange, yes, but an absolute requirement. Can this be done with any existing utilities? kermit? Thanks Jeff