Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-15 Thread fred
I would be happy to include a dmesg report but have not been able to figure out how to copy and paste into Thunderbird 2.0.0.22. However, from looking at the dmesg output, com1 is apparently configured but com2 is not mentioned. I don't care which serial port works. A reboot did not solve th

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-15 Thread Paul de Weerd
I think Owain is on to something here... [we...@desktop] $ cu -l /dev/tty01 /dev/tty01: Device not configured link down [we...@desktop] $ cu -l /dev/tty00 can't open log file /var/log/aculog. Connected You don't seem to have a /dev/tty01 device. Che

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-15 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:23:21AM -0600, fred wrote: > I am sure the cable is ok. The response from tip is: > /dev/tty01: Device not configured > link down Are you sure that tty01 is the device that you want? please post a dmesg saying which port it is that you wish to poke, i can't find one in

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-15 Thread fred
I am sure the cable is ok. The response from tip is: /dev/tty01: Device not configured link down I connected a dumb terminal to the port to see if it expects a modem to respond but this is not the case. I tried: echo "this is the time" >/dev/tty01 ksh: cannot create /dev/tty01: Device not co

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-14 Thread Sean Kamath
On Jul 14, 2010, at 3:55 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:47:18 -0600 fred wrote: >> >> I restored the dialer group to /dev/tty01 and added the user to the >> dialer group as Nick suggested. It still doesn't work but the >> response is different now. I believe there is a cable p

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-14 Thread fred
Both cua01 and tty01 give the same result: /dev/tty01: Device not configured link down I believe it is a cable problem but I have not had time to resolve it yet. Nicholas Marriott wrote: cua doesn't wait for handshaking, so it may work. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:51:35AM -0600, fred wrote:

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:47:18 -0600 fred wrote: > > I restored the dialer group to /dev/tty01 and added the user to the > dialer group as Nick suggested. It still doesn't work but the > response is different now. I believe there is a cable problem now. > The cable works with a Sun Ultra 10 but n

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-13 Thread Nicholas Marriott
And what is the response now? You should be using cua01 not tty01. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 06:47:18AM -0600, fred wrote: > I restored the dialer group to /dev/tty01 and added the user to the > dialer group as Nick suggested. It still doesn't work but the > response is different now. I believe

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-13 Thread fred
I restored the dialer group to /dev/tty01 and added the user to the dialer group as Nick suggested. It still doesn't work but the response is different now. I believe there is a cable problem now. The cable works with a Sun Ultra 10 but not with the PC running openbsd. Thank you for the hel

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/12/10 21:54, patrick keshishian wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Nick Holland > wrote: >> On 07/12/10 19:32, patrick keshishian wrote: ... >>> $ sudo -u uucp tip snake >>> >>> --patrick >> >> uh...if all else fails, do it as root? I think we'd prefer to avoid >> that, unless really

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-12 Thread patrick keshishian
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Nick Holland wrote: > On 07/12/10 19:32, patrick keshishian wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:58 PM, fred wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> A user needs to connect to external equipment using tip and a serial port. >>> >>> I created an /etc/remote file: >>> snake:br=960

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/12/10 19:32, patrick keshishian wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:58 PM, fred wrote: >> Hello, >> >> A user needs to connect to external equipment using tip and a serial port. >> >> I created an /etc/remote file: >> snake:br=9600:dv=/dev/tty01:hf:nb:pa=none >> >> The group associated with /

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-12 Thread patrick keshishian
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:58 PM, fred wrote: > Hello, > > A user needs to connect to external equipment using tip and a serial port. > > I created an /etc/remote file: > snake:br=9600:dv=/dev/tty01:hf:nb:pa=none > > The group associated with /dev/tty01 was changed from dialer to one that > include

request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-12 Thread fred
Hello, A user needs to connect to external equipment using tip and a serial port. I created an /etc/remote file: snake:br=9600:dv=/dev/tty01:hf:nb:pa=none The group associated with /dev/tty01 was changed from dialer to one that includes the user: $ls -l /dev/tty01 crw-rw 1 uucp wheel 8,