Mine is not USB based so I can rule that out.  It's either the serial
controller in the monitor or the card not getting along with the ASUS
motherboard.  I still have a few tricks to try out and I'll add yours to
the list.  Next on the agenda...find time!

--brandon sossamon


Hi,

I've often run into difficulties with USB-based serial adapters, to the
point where I've given up on them for all but the most trivial things.

If you're able to find something with an onboard serial port, or failing
that get a card-based port, you'll be likely to save a lot of headaches.

Another thing I've run into, some serial ports only seem to work
properly after they've been initially set up. I had one system a while
back where it would not see the serial port upon boot until I opened up
a terminal prompt and gave it the setup:

stty -F /dev/ttyS0 9600

Of course, replace the S0 and the 9600 with the port number and baud
rate you are using.

What I ended up doing on that computer is I put the command into a
script which runs upon boot, that solved the issue.  You could
potentially put this into the Rivendell daemon init script, trigger the
serial port before starting up the rest of the daemons.  I don't know if
this might help to fix the problem mentioned below where rdadmin needs
to be opened up first to diable and re-enable the serial port, but it
might be worth a try.
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