Mouse voodoo?
Duane Attaway
dattaway at attaway.yi.org
Fri Mar 8 22:49:27 CST 2002
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Bradley Miller wrote:
> Can someone give me a quick way to test my serial ports in Linux? I can't
> get my Peanut box to recognize my mouse . . . I don't know if it's a bad
> mouse or bad ports . . . ? ? ?
This will print out a list of what the serial driver thinks:
setserial -g /dev/ttyS? | less
Recognized, working ports will have details; otherwise it will list No
Such Device for that port.
While you can also use programs like minicom to swap bytes over the ports,
simply echo'ing a string into the port would work too. When I deal with a
new piece of computer hardware, this consice troubleshooting section often
saves the day:
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO-15.html
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