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Old 10-15-2006, 05:26 PM   #1
ma1069
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low level serial troubles


Hello,
I'm trying to communicate via serial port to an external device. In Windows, I usually use these settings:

Baud rate: 9600
Data bits: 7
Parity: Even
Stop bit: 1
Flux control: none

Following some examples, I've written some code that surely "sends something" on the line (I've seen it with the oscilloscope) but can't read anything from the line and the external device doesn't seem to understand the commands received.

I've used this configuration code:

Quote:
new_attributes.c_cflag |= CREAD;
new_attributes.c_cflag |= B9600;
new_attributes.c_cflag |= CS7;
new_attributes.c_iflag |= PARENB;
I think that the error is there, but I can't understand what I am missing...

Can someone help me?
 
Old 10-16-2006, 07:33 AM   #2
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Have you taken a look at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html?

Last edited by timmeke; 10-16-2006 at 07:36 AM.
 
Old 10-16-2006, 03:15 PM   #3
ma1069
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Yes, I've read a similar document to learn how to work...
According to that document, everything should go fine, but isn't so.
The problem is just in the configuration code, I've checked every option (and there are really A LOT, trust me) but without success.
 
Old 10-17-2006, 08:51 AM   #4
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After weeks of tries, I finally discovered the solution!!
I'll post here just in case that someone else has the same problem...

The right conf is:

Quote:
new_attributes.c_cflag |= PARENB;
new_attributes.c_cflag &= ~PARODD;
new_attributes.c_cflag &= ~CSTOPB;
new_attributes.c_cflag &= ~CSIZE;
new_attributes.c_cflag |= CS7;

tcsetattr(tty_fd, TCSADRAIN, &new_attributes);
The problem was that I was forgotting to disable the wrong parameters!

Thank you, however...
 
  


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