Re: Problem opening new serial ports

2008-08-06 Thread Sylvain RICHARD
Andy Moreton a écrit : On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:37:41 GMT, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2008-08-05, Gary Johnson wrote: [snipped] OK, I did some Googling and found a "Cygwin USB-to-Serial HOWTO" (http://tmp.ua964.com/cygwin-usb-to-serial-howto/) and a thread in this list from May, both me

Re: Problem opening new serial ports

2008-08-06 Thread Andy Moreton
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:37:41 GMT, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2008-08-05, Gary Johnson wrote: [snipped] > OK, I did some Googling and found a "Cygwin USB-to-Serial HOWTO" > (http://tmp.ua964.com/cygwin-usb-to-serial-howto/) and a thread in > this list from May, both mentioning Cygwin's limit of 16

Re: Problem opening new serial ports

2008-08-05 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2008-08-05, Gary Johnson wrote: > I've been successfully using the original two serial ports on my > Windows PC, COM1 and COM2, referring to them to Cygwin tools as > /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1, respectively. I needed two more serial > ports, so I used a device that plugs into a USB port on a PC

Problem opening new serial ports

2008-08-05 Thread Gary Johnson
I've been successfully using the original two serial ports on my Windows PC, COM1 and COM2, referring to them to Cygwin tools as /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1, respectively. I needed two more serial ports, so I used a device that plugs into a USB port on a PC and provides two serial ports. The device