That's great news, thank you guys!


On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> Btw the very latest VM in svn has support for naming serial ports:
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> http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/platforms/unix/ChangeLog
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> - Bert -
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> On 21.08.2009, at 21:49, Ricardo Moran wrote:
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>  It works!!!! Thank you very much! We were having this problem for a long
>> time. Now we will be able to use Arduino on Linux (and also other projects
>> that uses the SerialPort such as SqueakNxt). I am so happy! :D
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>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Markus Lampert <markuslampert at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> I've used the plugin which comes with vm and then just use SerialPort.
>> There are 2 things to look out for, you should start squeak with the
>> '-notimer' option, otherwise most of the system calls will fail.
>> With the standard plugin you can only access /dev/ttyS[0-9], so if you
>> want to use /dev/rfcomm0 for instance you can create a symlink to one of the
>> unused /dev/ttyS[5-9].
>> If you follow those two it works pretty reliable.
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>> Have fun,
>> Markus
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>> From: Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com>
>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <
>> squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:52:29 PM
>> Subject: [squeak-dev] Serial port in linux
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>> Hi, I'm trying to use the Serial port to interface with an Arduino board.
>> So far, I managed to make it work on Windows but I understand that Serial
>> port on linux is a bit more complicated. I've read this old discussion
>> http://www.nabble.com/communication-with-serial-port-t2549116.html and I
>> am a little confused.
>> It says that John McIntosh made an EnhancedSerialPort plugin. Is it
>> installed on the latest unix VMs?
>> It also says that Benjamin Schroeder wrote a SimpleSerialPort library.
>> Which one should I use?
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