Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction

2011-11-06 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 9:57 PM, bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Pardon my top post please. You'll have too ensure that you have only three wires. Line 2 to 3, line 3 to 2 and line 5 straight through. I don't think you'll be able to get bi directional serial links if you have the other hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction

2011-11-06 Thread Maciej Grela
2011/11/5 bill.long...@gmail.com: Pardon my top post please. You'll have too ensure that you have only three wires. Line 2 to 3, line 3 to 2 and line 5 straight through. I don't think you'll be able to get bi directional serial links if you have the other hardware lines connected. When you

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction

2011-11-06 Thread Andrea Conti
I have connected the wires by hand, 3-2 and 2-3 but without 5. I'll try it again today with 5 connected, and post my findings. Not having a common ground reference between the two sides could very well cause the kind of problems you're seeing :) andrea

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction

2011-11-06 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: I have connected the wires by hand, 3-2 and 2-3 but without 5. I'll try it again today with 5 connected, and post my findings. Not having a common ground reference between the two sides could very well cause the kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction

2011-11-06 Thread Jeremy McSpadden
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

[gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction

2011-11-05 Thread Kfir Lavi
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 -

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction

2011-11-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 Nov 2011 09:20:19 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 -

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction

2011-11-05 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 05 Nov 2011 09:20:19 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction

2011-11-05 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 05 Nov 2011 09:20:19 Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi all, I have a problem connecting my laptop to my server at home with a serial cable. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction

2011-11-05 Thread bill.longman
Is there some inittab setting that's different on your laptop?-- Sent from my HP TouchPadOn Nov 5, 2011 2:21 AM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction

2011-11-05 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:30 PM, bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some inittab setting that's different on your laptop? -- Sent from my HP TouchPad -- On Nov 5, 2011 2:21 AM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have a problem connecting my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction

2011-11-05 Thread bill.longman
Pardon my top post please.You'll have too ensure that you have only three wires. Line 2 to 3, line 3 to 2 and line 5 straight through. I don't think you'll be able to get bi directional serial links if you have the other hardware lines connected.-- Sent from my HP TouchPadOn Nov 5, 2011 3:17 AM,