[fpc-pascal] serial.pp - I can't talk to modem

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Wed Jan 2 15:30:10 CET 2008


> On 02/01/2008, Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
> >
> >    What are the permissions on /dev/ttyS0 ? Have you tried running it
> > as root ?
> 
> The first thing I checked!  The user is part of the 'dialout' group
> which has access to the modem. 'minicom' was a test of this and works.
>  I also ran my program under root, but still no change.
> 
> Does anybody have Linux and a modem to give the application a try?
> This should eliminate a PC specific issue, but then again 'minicom'
> works just fine on my computer.

Note that there is a serial related bug in Mantis, with respect to setting
baudrates. 

I'm waiting till I have a serial device to test. (must have a cable soldered
at work first)



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