>
> For starters, its ttySx NOT ttysx:
>
> bash-2.03$ setserial /dev/ttys0
> /dev/ttys0: Input/output error
> bash-2.03$ setserial /dev/ttyS0
> /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied
> bash-2.03$ sudo setserial /dev/ttyS0
> Password:
> /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
>
Doh! How did I know it would be something stupid like that :P
>
> For doing a straight echo like that, and expecting something at the other
> end, you need to setup baud rates etc. Generally you set something like
> this up in iniitab, to watch the serial port with a getty, then when the
> terminal program connects you get a login prompt:
Yip, read about all that. Hopefully that will all work now, thanks a bunch!
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