Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:03:19PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On May 2 20:27, Nefastor wrote: >> >> Your trick worked as advertised, and on the first try, thank you very much >> :handshake: >> >> Anyone know where this problem with tcsetattr() comes from ? Is it >> documented or specific to

Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 2 20:27, Nefastor wrote: > > Your trick worked as advertised, and on the first try, thank you very much > :handshake: > > Anyone know where this problem with tcsetattr() comes from ? Is it > documented or specific to Cygwin ? (or both ?) The reason is probably: Nobody ever implemented i

Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-05-02 Thread Nefastor
Your trick worked as advertised, and on the first try, thank you very much :handshake: Anyone know where this problem with tcsetattr() comes from ? Is it documented or specific to Cygwin ? (or both ?) Nefastor -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Looking-for-basic-documentati

Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-05-01 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2008-05-01, Nefastor wrote: > Nefastor wrote: > > > > Thanks for all the info, everyone :-D. I'm gonna try a few things and get > > back to you. > > > > So I've tried a few things, and obviously all hell broke loose, sort of. > I've written a very simple "Hello World" program, which I'll past

RE: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-05-01 Thread Nefastor
Nefastor wrote: > > Thanks for all the info, everyone :-D. I'm gonna try a few things and get > back to you. > So I've tried a few things, and obviously all hell broke loose, sort of. I've written a very simple "Hello World" program, which I'll paste at the end of this message. The program is

Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Dave Korn wrote: RGH[*]! FTDIchip are the bane of my life at the moment. Buggy drivers. I hate them so much . [*] - I just got back from rebooting a testrig that locked up due to buggy ftdichip drivers at about the twentytwo-hour point into a twentyseven-hour testrun. I am not happy.

RE: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-25 Thread Dave Korn
Nefastor wrote on 25 April 2008 17:26: > Thanks Dave, I kinda suspected the FTDI drivers for the COM3 issue One tip I've learned is never, ever, ever, unplug them while you're still running your terminal software (or whatever) and it's got the port open. Disconnect, or exit the application, or

RE: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-25 Thread Nefastor
Thanks Dave, I kinda suspected the FTDI drivers for the COM3 issue (I've seen worse : once, the COM port number would be incremented every time the cable was unplugged and replugged). Unfortunately I'm stuck with FTDI chips as they are, AFAIK, the only USB-to-serial adapters I can buy as chips and

Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-25 Thread Nefastor
NightStrike wrote: > > What motherboard do you have? It's always possible that there is a > riser pinout for a serial port somewhere in the front of the board for > connection to a front panel mount. > No, I checked for that. Besides, this port would appear in Windows' device manager even if

RE: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-25 Thread Dave Korn
Nefastor wrote on 24 April 2008 23:08: > case : My machine has two serial port, one on the MoBo and a USB-serial > adapter, yet Windows calls them COM1 and COM3. Or /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS2, as they'll be known to cygwin. > Speaking of Windows' DM, it's rather quirky on the serial > ports :

Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-24 Thread NightStrike
On 4/24/08, Nefastor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > > Nefastor wrote: > > > >> (...) I don't know which of Cygwin's /dev/tty device corresponds to which > >> serial > >> port on my PC (that is, I only know the COM port number). I can "sort of > >> guess" /dev/tty0 is CO

Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-24 Thread Nefastor
Brian Dessent wrote: > > Nefastor wrote: > >> (...) I don't know which of Cygwin's /dev/tty device corresponds to which >> serial >> port on my PC (that is, I only know the COM port number). I can "sort of >> guess" /dev/tty0 is COM1, but that's a guess, and I'd prefer some >> certainty. > > C

Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Nefastor wrote: > I want to write simple programs which use the serial port (for example, a > program that will trap and log activity on a serial port, nothing fancy). I > know how to do that under Linux, and under DOS as well. The problem is I > don't know which of Cygwin's /dev/tty device corres