[CentOS] Need to test serial port connection
John Doe
jdmls at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 26 13:43:29 UTC 2009
From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
> I recently bought a new UPS, and I'm attempting to use nut to monitor it.
> Following setup instructions everything seemed to go well until it came to
> testing the connection, which failed.
> There is just one serial connector on the computer, so I set it to
> monitor /dev/ttyS0. Either that is wrong, or communication is failing.
> I've been told to try minicom to monitor it, but I'm not familiar with
> minicom (or any similar app), so again, I may be wrong in the way I'm trying
> to use that. I was told that unconnecting the device, then re-connecting it
> should give me a raft of output to the terminal - I saw nothing.
> Could someone please give me idiot-level instructions on how to tell whether
> I'm connecting to the correct port, or whatever other information I need?
Maybe have a look at the setserial command, if you need to set/get serial parameters...
JD
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