henry, this might be a good application for strace -- strace -s99 -o LOG whatever
look at -ff if threads are being used. this will tell you the return status of any system calls that minicom is making. perhaps there's a problem opening or writing to device file? you can probably do a cat LOG | grep -v map | less to get rid of all the memory mapping cruft. pete begin Henry House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have two machines connected by serial crossover cable. I can write data to > /dev/ttyS0 on the one machine (headless server) and receive on the other > (terminal) using 'cat /dev/ttyS0' but I can't get minicom to work. Symptom: > nothing at all appears on the receiver! As far as I can tell I did have the > correct comm settings. If anyone has done this and would be willing to > enlighten me, I would be very grateful. > > In case you did not guess already, I plan to redirect grub to the serial port > and run a getty on the headless server. > > -- > Henry House > The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> > for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. -- PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
