My question is why the hell would you want to connect it over serial? Try ethernet, its much faster.
-- Jeremy On Nov 5, 2011, at 4:20 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: > Hi all, > I have a problem connecting my laptop to my server at home with a serial > cable. > I have cable end for /dev/ttyS0 and 2 cable ends for /dev/ttyUSB0. > This lets me test the connection between all serial outputs. > Desktop1-minicom <-> Desktop2-minicom > works with all connections, i.e ttyUSB0 <-> ttyUSB0, or ttyS0 <-> ttyUSB0 and > viseversa. > So when connecting 2 desktop computers everything works as expected. > > The problem: > When I connect my laptop to any of those desktops, I get just one way > connection! > If I swap the sides of the cable, the one way connection switch side. > The laptop doesn't have ttyS0, so it have to be connected via ttyUSB0 > When I swap sides, it is just between two usb dongles. > > The usb dongles are PL2303 both sides. > Settings of minicom is 38400 8n1 Hardware Flow Control=OFF > > Laptop setserial: > setserial -a /dev/ttyUSB0 > /dev/ttyUSB0, Line 0, UART: 16654, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0 > Baud_base: 460800, close_delay: 0, divisor: 0 > closing_wait: infinte > Flags: spd_normal > > Desktop1 setserial: > setserial -a /dev/ttyS0 > /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 > Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 > closing_wait: 3000 > Flags: spd_normal skip_test > > setserial -a /dev/ttyUSB0 > /dev/ttyUSB0, Line 0, UART: 16654, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0 > Baud_base: 460800, close_delay: 0, divisor: 0 > closing_wait: infinte > Flags: spd_normal > > I tried to add the skip_test but this seems to be not working. > I'm not sure what to do next. > > Any help will be appreciated, > Thanks, > Kfir
