Re: [fpc-pascal] How to use serial or usb-ports in linux

[Henry Vermaak]

On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 12:16:31PM +0200, P. vanderWal wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I wrote a program to control a hobby milling machine.(Profiler, see
> Elektor-forum). The programm is written in fpc-pascal and using
> synaser in the windows version for control of the serial port(s).  Now
> I want to use the program in Debian 8... and or Ubuntu 15... Compiling
> and running the present version gives "no permission" for the
> serial/usb ports.  Please advise how to get the program running with
> these ports. (lazarus 1.2.4 fpc 2.6.4).

For Debian you usually have to be part of the "dialout" group to have
access to the serial ports.

Henry
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[fpc-pascal] How to use serial or usb-ports in linux

[P. vanderWal]

Hello all,

I wrote a program to control a hobby milling machine.(Profiler, see 
Elektor-forum). The programm is written in fpc-pascal and using synaser in the 
windows version for control of the serial port(s).
Now I want to use the program in Debian 8... and or Ubuntu 15... Compiling and 
running the present version gives "no permission" for the serial/usb ports.
Please advise how to get the program running with these ports. (lazarus 1.2.4 
fpc 2.6.4).

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Re: [fpc-pascal] How to use serial or usb-ports in linux

[Sven Barth]

Am 06.09.2015 12:34 schrieb "P. vanderWal" :
>
> Hello all,
>
> I wrote a program to control a hobby milling machine.(Profiler, see
Elektor-forum). The programm is written in fpc-pascal and using synaser in
the windows version for control of the serial port(s).
> Now I want to use the program in Debian 8... and or Ubuntu 15...
Compiling and running the present version gives "no permission" for the
serial/usb ports.
> Please advise how to get the program running with these ports. (lazarus
1.2.4 fpc 2.6.4).

You need to run your program either as root or ensure that the user you run
as is allowed to use the ports.
You can check that by doing a "ls -l /dev/tty*", which will list the user
and group of the ttys as well as the permissions. With "groups" you should
be able to list what groups your user is part of and whether one of those
matches the group of the ports you try to access.

Regards,
Sven
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Re: [fpc-pascal] How to use serial or usb-ports in linux

[Christo]

On Sun, 2015-09-06 at 12:40 +0200, Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 06.09.2015 12:34 schrieb "P. vanderWal" :
> >
> > Hello all,
> >  
> > I wrote a program to control a hobby milling machine.(Profiler, see
> Elektor-forum). The programm is written in fpc-pascal and using
> synaser in the windows version for control of the serial port(s).
> > Now I want to use the program in Debian 8... and or Ubuntu 15...
> Compiling and running the present version gives "no permission" for
> the serial/usb ports.
> > Please advise how to get the program running with these ports.
> (lazarus 1.2.4 fpc 2.6.4).
> 
> You need to run your program either as root or ensure that the user
> you run as is allowed to use the ports. 
> You can check that by doing a "ls -l /dev/tty*", which will list the
> user and group of the ttys as well as the permissions. With "groups"
> you should be able to list what groups your user is part of and
> whether one of those matches the group of the ports you try to access.
> 
> Regards,
> Sven
> 

A different flavour of what Sven recommended is to write a udev rule
which adds the permissions to any (or according to some filter rules)
usb device on the fly.  This is particularly useful if the kernel
assigns different names to different devices.  I have the following rule
in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-permissions-on-unclaimed-usb-devices.rules:

 SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{bDeviceClass}=="ff", ACTION=="add",
GROUP="groupname", MODE="0664" 

Regards,
Christo

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Re: [fpc-pascal] FreeBSD distro with fpc as star.

[Fred van Stappen]

> After increasing the memory I'm up and running.  Thanks!

Fantastic ;-)
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