stan writes: > I'm porting a small application that reads some temperature probes conected > to srvial ports from HP-UX to Debian Woody. > > It opens up the serial ports, sends a few charatcers, and then listens for > the reply. What serial port device names should I be using for the 2 > onboard serail ports on my mother (com1 & com2)?
/dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1, respectively. If you have a USB<->Serial convertor, the first of those ports will be /dev/ttyUSB0, assuming you have that device node. Andrew.