Serial Port Bug?

[David Timms]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>    Wanting a way to test the serial port I recalled minicom and after 
> getting it set up on /dev/ttyS0 it seems happy with Com 1. The old 
> /dev/modem is gone on F7. But now what is a way to drive the serial port 
> pins to a constant plus voltage with minicom?

In minicom it can help {and if only using a 3 wire cable be required} to 
disable the setting where it looks for HW handshaking from the remote 
device:
| A -    Serial Device      : /dev/ttyS1
| B - Lockfile Location     : /var/lock
| E -    Bps/Par/Bits       : 9600 8N1 
     | F - Hardware Flow Control : No
| G - Software Flow Control : No

If you are using a cable with more than 3 wires, you might need to check 
that the DTR, DSR lines a wired up appropriately - ie that the remote 
device is not incorrectly telling your computer that it is not ready.

A simple trick is to connect pins 2 and 3 {transmit and receive} 
directly on your serial port, and see if you get characters typed echoed 
back ?

DaveT.