On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 03:00:50PM +0000, Mark and Janice Juszczec wrote: > > Hi folks > > I've spent the last week working on ppp and have gotten some more info. > Someone on pdabuzz (who had done work with connecting via the cradle cable) > indicated that a null modem cable was unnecessary when connecting to a > laptop, so I stopped using one. > > Next thing I did was verify that ppp was sending anything over the serial > line. I did this by starting pppd from a shell prompt in minicom. I was > hoping to see characters pop up on the screen indicating that something was > being transmitted. But there was nothing. I ran pppd with strace and it > said it was core dumping. > > Thru trial and error, I got alot of errors, so it was a real trial ;-) > I found that if I ran pppd as follows > > pppd <local ip addr>:<remove ip addr> /dev/ttyS0 57600 > > it didn't core dump and characters did display on the minicom screen. > > Unfortunately, when I put the new pppd command in inittab and tried > connecting to the laptop after a Helio reboot, no connection was made.
It sounds like the syntax of the inittab line might be bad? > > So, now I want to see if anything is being received on the laptop serial > port. I found statserial and am wondering if there are any other software > tools that will monitor the serial port. Someone at work suggested 'cat > /dev/ttyS0' which displayed nothing when pppd ran on the Helio. 'cat /dev/ttyS0' should work fine. If you need to set the baud rate on the serial port, you can do so in minicom then exit it without resetting. > > Does anyone know any other ways to monitor data coming over the serial > port? Does anyone have any other ideas, suggestions as to what to do next? If you had pppd displaying characters on minicom, then pppd and minicom should be working. I'd blame the inittab line. > > Mark > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas - > http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink > > _______________________________________________ > Pgui-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel -- Only you can prevent creeping featurism! _______________________________________________________________ Multimillion Dollar Computer Inventory Live Webcast Auctions Thru Aug. 2002 - http://www.cowanalexander.com/calendar _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
