Re: USB-RS232 strange behaviour

2012-02-21 Thread Paul de Weerd
Hi Rod, On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:25:50PM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: | I have been using a USB-RS232 dongle for quite a while since DE9 | connectors started going away on laptops. | | Typically I use "cu -l cuaU0" to connect and everything is fine. | | Today I tried to use the same (dongle and

Re: USB-RS232 strange behaviour

2012-02-21 Thread Mihai Popescu
Did you try to connect to that Soekris using your laptop? Maybe there is nothing wrong with the dongle ... A dmesg snip with that dongle detection would be interesting, too. .

Re: USB-RS232 strange behaviour

2012-02-21 Thread Gregory Edigarov
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:25:50 +1100 "Rod Whitworth" wrote: > I have been using a USB-RS232 dongle for quite a while since DE9 > connectors started going away on laptops. What chip is your dongle built on? When you connect it, do you see something in the logs/some changes in dmesg? > Any educate

USB-RS232 strange behaviour

2012-02-21 Thread Rod Whitworth
I have been using a USB-RS232 dongle for quite a while since DE9 connectors started going away on laptops. Typically I use "cu -l cuaU0" to connect and everything is fine. Today I tried to use the same (dongle and command) on an old desktop to talk to a Soekris 4801. The message I got was "/dev/