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Subject: Re: How can I know if a serial port is working.
To: yuanpinghh@yahoo.com (Ping Yuan)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:22:44 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Corey Brune" <brune@sdf.lonestar.org>
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Run dmesg to make sure your box sees the device. Then look for sio# that 
is associated with the device. This will correspond to the cuaa# device. For
example, sio0 would be /dev/cuaa0.


Hope this helps,
Corey
> 
> 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
> 
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