On Wed, May 28, 2008 9:40 pm, Kevin Shackleton wrote: > I don't have any experience with your distros, but I'd say that if you > get an "offline" message that means that the CD (carrier detect) line is > low, there is some hardware handshaking going on. I would not expect the > issues of minicom to be the same.
Kevin, thanks for detailed explanation, much appreciated as it was, it was 'Xen' that was grabbing COM1 at boot up, disabling it allowed minicom to have a go at COM1 (even though it still says 'offline') so, it now works fine, now I can try to feed the data into mrtg or rrdt, thanks again -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
