Btw the very latest VM in svn has support for naming serial ports:

http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/platforms/unix/ChangeLog

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On 21.08.2009, at 21:49, Ricardo Moran wrote:

> 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 
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> 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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