Serial Ports

[dkimbrel]

I have Dell D610 running a ham program called fldigi and flrig. The programs work okay in Mint 10, 11, and 12. In Debian Mint the programs cannot find the serial port ttyS0. running the dmesg | grep ttyS0 I see the following:
serial 8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A.
Tried to configure the serial ports with minicom however, the program is unable to locate the serial port.
If anyone has some insight to this, the information would be welcome.
Thanks
Dave (dkimbrel)

[xenopeek]

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[mstombs]

Have same problem in Debian Mint,

Linux mint64 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 02:24:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

serial ports work fine in Windows or recent Ubuntu (which has unusable desktop!), but when booted into Debian Mint PuTTy can't open the serial port (any)

This PC has a motherboard serial plus an extra couple with PCI multifunction parallel plus dual serial

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mint64 ~ $ dmesg |grep tty
[    0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
[    2.027027] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[    2.208606] 00:0b: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[    6.808425] 0000:05:00.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0xec00 (irq = 16) is a 16550A
[    6.844281] 0000:05:00.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0xe880 (irq = 16) is a 16550A

and the fix is to add the current user to the "dialout" group

Its a permissions problem, putty does work if started from the command line with "sudo putty"

[das_geisterbild]

I am currently running Mint 16 64 bit. This is exactly what I did to make this work for me.

CLI as follows:

sudo apt-get install putty

dmesg |grep tty

sudo apt-get install setserial ttyUSB0 (if this is your serial port).

sudo putty --- or right click putty and "Run as Administrator"

This is currently working for me. I have been able to console into CISCO routers and Juniper Firewalls.

[karlchen]

Note, please, das_geisterbild.
what works for you on Linut Mint 16 (Ubuntu based) may or may not work unmodified on LMDE as well.
Note, too, please, that as a rule adding a new post to a thread that has not been touched for 2 years does not make too much sense.

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