Re: Data from a serial port

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 08:24:21PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
> On 10/01/2014 03:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:26:48PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> >>root@meow:/home/ethan#  setserial -g /dev/ttyS[0123]
> >>/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
> >>/dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x1c90, IRQ: 17
> >>
> >>More info from the manual --
> >>
> >>9600 baud, 7 data bits, even parity, 1 stop bit
> >>
> >>Transmits weight and scale status whenever ASCII 'W'<CR> is sent by the POS terminal.
> 
> Minicom set up as  9600,7,e,1.
> Terminal ANSI
> No response from tapping W.

Check that this is ttyS0, not ttyS1; check that the cable is
good; check that the scale is on. Does it need an initialization
sequence?

-dsr-