Minicom cant get info from /dev/ttyS0 and ttyS1

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 15:28 +0200, Erik Grootjans wrote:
> I try to get serial communication with a broadbandrouter
> When i use PCPLUS with DOS 5.0 i can get communication
> with the router (115200 N81 No Software Control / No hardware Control)
> It works both on comm1 and comm2
> 
> If i try to communicated from Fedora 6 with minicom
> I get for ttyS1 --> device does not exist
> for ttyS0 --> i get nothing
> 
> If i look at the /dev directory i see the devices ttyS0 to ttyS3
> (with dev ttyS0 connected)
> 
> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 mrt 28 15:24 ttyS0
> crw-rw---- 1 root root  4, 65 mrt 28 2007 ttyS1
> crw-rw---- 1 root root  4, 66 mrt 28 2007 ttyS2
> crw-rw---- 1 root root  4, 67 mrt 28 2007 ttyS3
> 
> 
> Where do i have to look, to make the serial connection work on comm1
> (ttyS0).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Erik
> 

If you're trying to access the serial port as a user, make sure the user
is member of the uucp group.

- Gilboa