configuring serial ports
 

In linux,what are the settings that have to be done in order to make the serial ports communicate with each other.

You enter all the settings (like speed) in the communication program you use.

Or you can specify things at the command line using the stty command for terminal apps.

Mentioning what you are intending to do may be useful...

making serialports communicate
 

Thanx a lot for the reply but i've already tried this through stty but failed to make the comports communicate,the data written on one comport is not being read by another comport. Either the program would hang on read or even if it reads something then the garbage values r displayed instead of the actual data which has been sent to it.

You can configure the post, but communication programs override the settings. So if your have the same program on both machines with different settings (for example speed) it may not work even if you use stty. Which program do you use to communicate? Is it standard?

I've just started using minicom for serial communication, maybe you should check it out. It's easy to configure and use.

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