I am trying to run a python app which controls sevomotors. There is no handshaking, just a bit bang from pin 3 of the DB9 straight into a PIC.
There is nothing showing on the oscilloscope: it's just flatlining.
I do a dmesg grep | tty and get nothing at all showing.
I've done:
sudo setserial ttyS0 autoconfig
mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 # base address 0x03f8
/sbin/MAKEDEV -v ttyS0
Still nothing shows up on a dmesg
Until I run gtkterm. At which point I can press keys to my hearts content and the scope shows me pretty square waves.
But as soon as I close gtkterm, I've lost ttyS0.
This app apparently works for other people, but that doesn't help me a lot.
I'm running Mint Katya 2.6.38-13 on a Dell Latitude D430, connected to a docking station with a COM1 serial DB9 connector attached, and the BIOS is happy with COM1 active (as proved by gtkterm)
The app is attached as a text file.
So how do I get the computer to permanently see ttyS0, or what would I change in the app so that it will work?
I have python-serial installed, just don't really know what else do.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thank you in anticipation..
Fitch.