On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 08:29, Wojciech Moczulski wrote: > Hello there, > I'm novice at this group and I'd like to say HI to all of you. > > I'm writing this post because I've got a little problem. > I plugged to serial port(COM, RS 232) MIDI module "Sound Canvas 88VL" > but my FC2 doesn't "see" this one (musical module, of course).What > should I do in this case? What should be steps in turn? > THX for you response, some tips and suggestions in advance. > Bemol > Poland I'm certainly not an expert @ t'shooting serial ports, but since no one else has offered anything yet here goes: check ownership of /dev/ttyS0. if it's owned by root, you will need to either be su to use it, or chown it to yourself. I use minicom for serial comms because it worked the first time I tried it :) start a terminal window, type in "minicom -s", enter your parameters (9600, 8-N-1, etc, etc), and see if you can talk to something over the serial port. HTH, Jay
