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


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.
>
> 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
>
> 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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