Yes, I am using a USB serial dongle. It's a known reasonably good quality
brand that otherwise works fine interactively.





On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Paul van den Bergen <
[email protected]> wrote:

> are you using a USB to Serial dongle? for some time now they've been a
> standardised SoC that apparently handles breaks poorly... so if the system
> is expecting a break...
>
> (found this out for Unify PABX and Cisco serial - in the latter case,
> dropping the speed to 2400 and holding down space bar for 15 seconds was
> enough to fake a break - go figure... weird )
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 10:29, cory seligman via luv-main <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm having some trouble making expect work.
>>
>> I need it to talk to some vintage equipment over usb serial, and I think
>> I'm getting hung up on opening the port.
>>
>> When the script runs, it just connects to the device and sits there. I
>> can drive it interactively, but it doesn't attempt to automate anything.
>>
>> Any ideas? Thanks.
>>
>> My expect script looks like this:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/expect -f
>>
>> # device
>> set modem /dev/ttyUSB0
>>
>> # keep it open
>> exec sh -c "sleep 3 < $modem" &
>>
>> # serial port parameters
>> exec stty -F $modem 2400 raw -clocal -echo -istrip -hup
>>
>> # connect
>> send_user "connecting to $modem, exit with ~,\n"
>> spawn -open [open $modem w+]
>> interact {
>>     ~, exit
>>     ~~ {send "\034"}
>> }
>>
>> set force_conservative 1 ;# set to 1 to force conservative mode even if
>>               ;# script wasn't run conservatively originally
>> if {$force_conservative} {
>>     set send_slow {1 .1}
>>     proc send {ignore arg} {
>>         sleep .1
>>         exp_send -s -- $arg
>>     }
>> }
>>
>> set timeout -1
>> match_max 100000
>> send -- "\r"
>> send -- "\r"
>> expect  ">"
>> send -- "p 7d91\r"
>> expect  ">"
>> send -- "p b2ff\r"
>> expect  ">"
>> send -- "h\r"
>> expect  ">"
>> send -- "td\r"
>> expect "td\r
>>   18 215  12  24  33\r
>> >"
>> send -- "gd 215\r"
>> expect eof
>>
>>
>>
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>
> --
> Dr Paul van den Bergen
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