From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 18 9:58:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.mail.yahoo.com (smtp2.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 431B737B402 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:58:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from teddy.ece.rice.edu (HELO teddy) (128.42.4.66) by smtp.mail.vip.suc.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Jan 2001 17:58:14 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <002501c08178$5b7d4990$42042a80@teddy.ece.rice.edu> From: "Ping Yuan" To: Cc: Subject: How can I know if a serial port is working. Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:59:03 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, I have a Trimble Acutime 2000 GPS receiver and I tried to install that on my PC. I plugged it in one of a serial ports. Now, my questions are: 1) How could I know the port number that I am using? 2) How could I test if the port is working and if there is any data going through the port? Could you help me out of this? Thanks in advance, -Ping __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message