On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 15:57, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I get nothing when connecting my freshly made 9-pin nullmodem cable > between my PC and the Netwinder. I use minicom, and 115200 8N1 with > no flow control. Minicom says 'offline' in the lower right corner. I > expected it to go 'online' when the netwinder was turned on.
It will only go "online" if you connected pin 1 to something (pin 4 at the other end would be a good bet). But I don't think this is necessary, it's just for information. > Not even sure if the PCs serial ports are working. Do I need modules > loaded with a 2.4.16 kernel? There is no serial ports listed in > /proc/interrupts, only /proc/ioports. I tried lo laod generic_serial, > but it did not have any effect. The interrupt is only registered when the port is in use. You should see it in /proc/interrupts when minicom is actually running. Does "dmesg" mention any serial ports? It should say something like "ttyS0 at 0x3f8 is a 16550". p.
