Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:22:44 +0000 (GMT) From: "Corey Brune" <brune@sdf.lonestar.org> To: yuanpinghh@yahoo.com (Ping Yuan) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can I know if a serial port is working. Message-ID: <200101181922.f0IJMjk24018@sdf.lonestar.org> In-Reply-To: <002501c08178$5b7d4990$42042a80@teddy.ece.rice.edu> from "Ping Yuan" at Jan 18, 2001 11:59:03 AM
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Run dmesg to make sure your box sees the device. Then look for sio# that is associated with the device. This will correspond to the cuaa# device. For example, sio0 would be /dev/cuaa0. Hope this helps, Corey > > Hi all, > > I have a Trimble Acutime 2000 GPS receiver and I tried to install that on my > PC. I plugged it in one of a serial ports. Now, my questions are: > > 1) How could I know the port number that I am using? > 2) How could I test if the port is working and if there is any data going > through the port? > > Could you help me out of this? > Thanks in advance, > > -Ping > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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