[squeak-dev] Serial port in linux

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Aug 22 00:01:15 UTC 2009


But there are some missing bits still needing to be integrated, details
on Mantis http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7266. The delay is entirely
my fault, I'm busy for a couple of days but should have provided some
[VM-team] guidance.

RSN,
Dave

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:14:13PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Btw the very latest VM in svn has support for naming serial ports:
> 
> http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/platforms/unix/ChangeLog
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >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
> >
> >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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