[SWLUG] Serial ports

[Justin Mitchell]

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 14:38 +0100, Steve Anderson wrote:
> On 31/07/06, Justin Mitchell <justin at discordia.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > first off, make sure that the cable has been wired so that the CD line
> > is asserted, otherwise you will have to fiddle around to avoid it.
> 
> I'm not sure that it is. What is the fiddle to avoid, and is it easier
> than trying to solder things with a crying baby next to me?

Check by using 'statserial /dev/ttyS0' it show you the current status of
each of the control lines.

disabling the check, i cant entirely remeber, there used to be a
different device you could use (/dev/cua0) but thats gone, i think you
might only have to play with -clocal