Thank you guys for the fix in the serial plugin and for the tip in how to
get the list of available ports. Cheers.


On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 06:25:59PM -0300, Ricardo Moran wrote:
> > Hi, I've been testing the patch for accessing named serial ports in
> Ubuntu
> > 9.04 with an USB Arduino. I'm very grateful for this patch because it
> solves
> > me a lot of problems.
> >
> > Although it seems to be working fine, I have two questions:
> >
> > 1) Is it possible to access the list of available serial ports? (The
> > official arduino software lets you choose from a list of serial ports and
> I
> > would like to do the same).
>
> The plugin will not help with this, but you know the device names that you
> are looking for, you can just do something like this:
>
>  pattern := '*usb*'.
>  (FileDirectory on: '/dev') fileNames
>        select: [:e | pattern match: e]
>        thenCollect: [:e | '/dev/', e]
>
>
> > 2) The first time I open a port, it works fine. Then, if I close it and
> open
> > it again, everytime I try #nextPutAll: I get a primitive fail. This
> happens
> > with port numbers and with port names. The only workaround that I found
> is
> > closing the Squeak image and open it again. Could it be a bug in the
> serial
> > plugin?
>
> I think it's fixed in the latest Subversion sources now.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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