Issues on Fedora Core 6 with minicom

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Sun Apr 22, 2007 at 07:10:53 -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> Are you running fedora?

No, and I have no FC system handily available. Is there an easy way to
get a FC root filesystem?

> Like I said I more suspect glibc.
> I think as soon as I send on serial it stops receiving until I send wit 
> cutecom.

I can try with glibc-2.5 tomorrow. Which version of minicom does FC6
actually have?

> 
> On 4/22/07, Adam Lackorzynski <adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Fri Apr 20, 2007 at 16:20:07 -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> >> I don't know when the last time was minicom was working properly but I
> >> remember in the past it working correctly.
> >> It seems to work just fine using it with stuff at 9600 8n1 but higher
> >> rates seem to have issues.
> >> I have a number of switches that I use that require a faster rate.
> >> I'm useing FC6
> >>
> >> kernel 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6
> >> glibc glibc-2.5-10.fc6
> >> glib glib-1.2.10-26.fc6
> >> glib2 glib2-2.12.9-1.fc6
> >>
> >> ldd /usr/bin/minicom
> >>        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00e7f000)
> >>        libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x0071c000)
> >>        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00c4a000)
> >>        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00db2000)
> >>        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00c2d000)
> >>
> >> I cleared all the connect strings
> >>
> >> When I start minicom I can see stuff from the device but can not send to 
> >it.
> >> Not untill I open another program called cutecom and send something
> >> with it first.
> >> after I send something with cutecom then I can use minicom.
> >>
> >> I suspect some sort of change in ioctl and it not initializing correctly.
> >
> >I'm not aware of any changes in this area in minicom lately. With
> >working properly you mean a previous FC version (with different kernel
> >probably too)? You are not running Xen or similar?
> >I have no problems with latest minicom and a 2.6.20 kernel.
> >
> >
> >Adam
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> >
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