Issues on Fedora Core 6 with minicom

[Jeff Sadowski]

Are you running fedora?
Like I said I more suspect glibc.
I think as soon as I send on serial it stops receiving until I send wit cutecom.

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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