From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 7:41:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.magpage.com (trinity.magpage.com [216.155.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDEB137B71E for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 07:41:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfrazier@magpage.com) Received: from magpage.com (dfrazier@poomba.magpage.com [216.155.24.136]) by trinity.magpage.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f33Edjm92266; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:39:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3AC9E0B1.C66A20A3@magpage.com> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 10:39:45 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: direct serial port access References: <20010403141132.B10812@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm sure there are other ways, but I use minicom whenever I need to make a serial connection to some device. Install it from the ports, it's in /usr/ports/comms/minicom, and then check man minicom. Hope this helps... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. j mckitrick wrote: > > What man page do i need to read to find out how to access my serial port > (COM1) of my laptop? I need to talk to a serial controlled accessory in > straight ascii. > > jm > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org > "It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. > It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here." > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message