Re: wheezy: need help with serial port [really jessie, and now SOLVED]

2015-05-29 Thread D. R. Evans
bri...@aracnet.com wrote on 05/28/2015 09:47 PM: > what is the physical port, is it an actual rs-232 ? Yes. ( Amazingly, such things do still exist :-) ) But I figured it out this morning. I was being completely misled by the error message that came from the application, which made it seem that

Re: wheezy: need help with serial port

2015-05-28 Thread briand
On Thu, 28 May 2015 16:52:18 -0600 "D. R. Evans" wrote: > Prior to installing debian, I have used several releases of *buntu on a > machine on which /dev/ttyS4 is used; *buntu always detected and allowed me to > use the port automagically. > > Wheezy, however, sees only ttyS0, S1, S2 and S3. As

wheezy: need help with serial port

2015-05-28 Thread D. R. Evans
Prior to installing debian, I have used several releases of *buntu on a machine on which /dev/ttyS4 is used; *buntu always detected and allowed me to use the port automagically. Wheezy, however, sees only ttyS0, S1, S2 and S3. As far as I have been able to determine, none of these is associated wi