Re: Newbie question - Serial Ports

[grante@visi.com (Grant Edwards)]

In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote:

> If I run stty /dev/ttyD000 -a I do get a bunch of output
> including the buad rate (9600), however most of the other
> output I don't understand.

man stty

It explains what all that output means.

> Is there a good utility to "test" a serial port and also see
> how it is configured?

stty 
setserial

> The digi driver was supposed to build dpa and ditty, two
> specific programs for the digiboards but neither was built and
> I cannot get them to compile seperately.

I generally use ckermit or stty and cat/echo.  I avoid minicom.

> Any ideas?

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