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1. I don’t know if this is the place, but I’m looking for information that is similar. I have 2 machines setup through a null modem. I want to read through the com port from one machine to the other. The sending machine is running Windows sending through COM1: and the receiving computer is Linux Red Hat. Any help on this would be appreciated.

   1. You can use pyserial ,its a python package,can be used to read and write in serial ports

2. another simple serial console program not mentioned is gtkterm.

3. I want to advise you that probably there is an error in the last sentence “seserial with -g option help to find out what physical serial ports your Linux box has.”; isn’t it setserial?

   Bye

4. I have 4 standard serial ports defined, /dev/ttyS0-4, but I added a PCI-E 16 port serial adapter, and I have not found a way to connect anything to the upper 16 ports.
   How do you create the virtual links? what options do you give setserial to define the new ports?

5. it dosn’t work :( I can’t connect to my ASA using debian.

6. Daemon is a program called getty used by UNIX/Linux systems. There are many different versions of getty. The first modem detected is /dev/ttys0 or /dev/ttys1. To create a link to the devices file so that you can view modem information. Type ln -s /dev/ttys1 /dev/modem.
   It is essential to set the modem to AUTO ANSWER using getty.

   download minicom from alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom.

   create a modem config file by entering minicom -s from the root command line
   select the options you want to configure using AT commands
   connect to the modem by typing in minicom

7. Thanks very useful..save my time :)

8. Hi,everybody
   I have a serial PCI card with two ports but neither of them is working, on Linux fedora 16. I have tried using “gtkterm” and “minicom” but unfortunately I can’t make a serial connection to my Cisco lab. Here is my output when I issue the command: “setserial -g /dev/ttyS[0123]”.

   /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xec00, IRQ: 16
   /dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xe880, IRQ: 16
   /dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
   /dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3

   also I want to mention that when I try to connet throught the terminal it generates a message like so: ” Cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied”.
   any help please.
   abdel

   1. Check the permissions on /dev/ttyS0… Likely problem is it’s owned by root, and is part of the uucp group. Add yourself to the uucp group, and all should be better. I’m curious to know if this is enough for you as I am having problems communicating with a serial port on Linux as well. I got past the permissions stuff, but it is still not working.

      1. Thanks Tom,
         I actually I tried but it’s does not work, still says “permission denied”. I would appreciate if you explain to me step by step the procedure how to do it, I’m knew to Linux.
         Best Regards
         Abdel

         1. 1) ls -la /dev/ttyS0 — This will report the permissions on the port. Typically, this will say crw-rw—- 1 root uucp. The “c” in the string indicates that it’s a “character device” the first “rw” indicates that the owner has read/write permission. The second “rw” means that the group has read/write permissions. The “—” indicates that the rest of the world has no permissions. After the “—-“, “root” indicates that the owner of the device is root, and that the group id is “uucp”. So, you either need to be root, or a member of the uucp group to have read/write access to the port.

            2) To add yourself to the uucp group (to get read/write access), you need to edit the file /etc/group, and add your user name to the line that begins with “uucp:” User names are separated by commas, so add a comma, then your user name to the end of the line. You will need root permissions to edit this file.

            3) log out, and log back in because group associations are made at login time, and are not queried on each request.

            1. Thanks Tom,
               here is my output from the group file I have added my username to it but does not work.

               abdelinux:x:1000:uucp,adm,abdelinux,

               I will just give up.Thanks a lot for your help I relay appreciate it.

               1. Your entry in /etc/group is incorrect. If you read my previous post, I said to add your user id to the line that _begins_ with uucp. You added uucp to the group of users that can access your account. You want an entry in the /etc/group file that looks something like:

                  uucp:x:14:uucp,abdelinux

                  The critical element is that it’s the line that begins with uucp

                  1. Hi Tom,

                     It works. I just add my username to ” dialout ” and it worked fine. Iwould like to thank you for you time and support.

                     Best Regards
                     Abdel

9. hi,
   I have connected the SIM300(gsm model) to my pc running ubuntu. I need a code to send a AT command to the GSM module and it should read and display the reply.
   Please let me know steps.
   I tried so many methods and codes, but no use…

   Thank you

10. i need C code(program).

11. all my ttyS* shows unknown, earlier it was working fine, now it doesnt recognise

    setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
    /dev/ttyS0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
    /dev/ttyS1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
    /dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
    /dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3

    #cat /etc/redhat-release
    CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)

    #dmesg | grep tty
    console [tty0] enabled

    can u pls help me

12. tried spending time in google two days, still no success, tried connecting a brand new device too, still no success.

13. Sorry, but that second sentence is not necessarily true. I have a PC with two dual com port adapters. Windows sees them as COM1 -> COM4 (there is no built in COM port). Linux sees them as /dev/ttyS4->/dev/ttyS7.

    /dev/ttyS0-/devttyS3 are apparently reserved, exist whether or not a physical port exists, and /dev/ttyS0 for certain is “special” in that it is used by the default terminal window:

        dmesg | grep tty
        [    0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
        [    1.009457] 0000:02:00.0: ttyS4 at I/O 0xd030 (irq = 16) is a ST16650V2
        [    1.077312] 0000:02:00.1: ttyS5 at I/O 0xd020 (irq = 17) is a ST16650V2
        [    1.141309] 0000:02:00.2: ttyS6 at I/O 0xd010 (irq = 18) is a ST16650V2
        [    1.205307] 0000:02:00.3: ttyS7 at I/O 0xd000 (irq = 19) is a ST16650V2
        
        setserial -g /dev/ttyS[012345657]
        /dev/ttyS0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
        /dev/ttyS1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
        /dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
        /dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
        /dev/ttyS4, UART: 16650V2, Port: 0xd030, IRQ: 16
        /dev/ttyS5, UART: 16650V2, Port: 0xd020, IRQ: 17
        /dev/ttyS6, UART: 16650V2, Port: 0xd010, IRQ: 18
        /dev/ttyS7, UART: 16650V2, Port: 0xd000, IRQ: 19
    

14. I think minicom still superior to other console utility.

15. Hi All tried all of the above and still get permission denied ???? HELP
    Kevin

    kevin@Linux-Radio:~/bpq$ groups ${USER}
    kevin : kevin adm dialout cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare
    kevin@Linux-Radio:~/bpq$ setserial -g /dev/ttyS[012345657
    /dev/ttyS[012345657: No such file or directory
    g7uxw@Linux-Radio:~/bpq$ setserial -g /dev/ttyS[012345657]
    /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied
    /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied
    /dev/ttyS2: Permission denied
    /dev/ttyS3: Permission denied
    /dev/ttyS4: Permission denied
    /dev/ttyS5: Permission denied
    /dev/ttyS6: Permission denied
    /dev/ttyS7: Permission denied
    kevin@Linux-Radio:~/bpq$

16. try this kevin

    sudo setserial -g /dev/ttyS1

17. Hiiiiiiiii
    Please help me
    i am install minicom and use serial modem sim300 v7.03 but there is problem to type AT cmd on minicom console…….

18. Edgeports are very easy to use the firmware is on Ubuntu they are from 2 ports to 16+ I bought my last two of them on ebay,,,
    Jim

19. Hi all..
    I got problem to connect with my USB serial port,
    i already create
    ln -s /dev/ttyUS0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1

    and check dmesg | grep tty
    [ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
    [ 7.722004] systemd[1]: Created slice system-getty.slice.
    [ 3659.524452] usb 1-1.1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0
    [ 4850.183339] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
    [ 4857.907567] usb 1-1.1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0
    when running SDNC program and select com1 will shown “port is already in use”

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