Have you thouht of using a USB to serial adapter? https://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Converter-Installation-Universal-TU-S9/dp/B0007T27H8
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:43 AM Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all; > > One of the things I occasionally do is run a couple programs to talkto a > trs-80 computer running in the basement, which has 3 serial ports on it, > and the one that works with drivewire is the bitbanger, running at about > 155 kilobaud. drivewire is written in java and apparently the java is > too new. > > So the next thing is to run minicom, and see if it will talk to a > hardware serial port whose top speed is 9600 baud. I have one of those > 232 line testers with a slew of colored leds, which are all on in one > color or the other, but I can't get minicom to blink any of them. So I > look next with lsmod, no serial module. > > Is there any other way I can make the db9 port on this mobo work? > > Thanks all; > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." -Kenneth Boulding, economist Corporations are NOT people and money is NOT speech! _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
