serial ports
Hi, I do a bit of work on HP Itaniums. From my windows computer I can putty into the console of this computer via the serial port on my PC.
I tried this on a linux box - CentOS6.4. The motherboard has 2 serial ports. A grep on dmesg shows: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550AI am not sure which is which so I plugged the cable into both and I tried to connect via /dev/ttyS0 and ttyS1. This always gives me: The sad thing is that I get the same response on ttyS2 & ttyS3. I guess the question is...how do I diagnose activity on the serial ports? Cheers |
A simple test can be accomplished by using minicom and serial loop back plug or just a jumper between pins 2 & 3. Configure minicom for no hardware flow and the desired port. If you see what you type then you have identified the correct connector / serial port device ID.
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thanks. I was not aware of minicom which I will have to play with first. serial loop back plug, I know what you mean. Since I started working from home though, I'll have to hunt around for places to get one.
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