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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: TS 7800 Serial port doesn't appear
From: "dawydiuk" <>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:12:27 -0000
Hello,

> I'm trying to connect a PC shell serial emulator (putty) to the COM2 
> connector of the TS 7880 board and I don't success. I have checked all the 
> configuration parameters and the mailing list mesages, tried all I have 
> thought and it is like COM2 doesn't exist!!!

If you look in the TS-7800 
manual(http://www.embeddedarm.com/about/resource.php?item=393) in section "5.1 
Serial Ports" you will find "The TS-7800 has twelve UARTs. Two of these UARTs, 
which appear on the COM1 (DB9) header and the COM2 (10-pin) header are driven 
by the CPU. Under Linux these show up under /dev as ttyS0 and ttyS1" You can 
refer to the table indicating the pinout and connector where each com port is 
available.

It looks like you have added some new entries to the dev directory below(e.g. 
ttAM1, ttAm1...). You have several files that are not character devices, I'd 
recommend deleting these files. The TS-7800 uses a 2.6 kernel so you'll need to 
ensure you have udev running to populate the /dev directory, or in the case of 
busybox you can use the mdev -s command to populate the dev directory.

> ls -l /dev
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root         5 Sep  1 02:26 ttAM1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root         5 Sep  1 02:26 ttAm1
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty     5,   0 Feb 18  2009 tty
> crw------- 1 root tty     4,   0 Aug 31 03:43 tty0
> crw------- 1 root root    4,   1 Sep  1 01:07 tty1
> crw------- 1 root root    4,   2 Sep  1 01:07 tty2
> crw------- 1 root root    4,   3 Sep  1 01:07 tty3
> crw------- 1 root root    4,   4 Sep  1 01:07 tty4
> crw------- 1 root root    4,   5 Sep  1 01:07 tty5
> crw------- 1 root root    4,   6 Sep  1 01:07 tty6
> crw------- 1 root tty     4,   7 Feb 18  2009 tty7
> crw------- 1 root tty     4,   8 Sep  1 02:58 tty8
> crw------- 1 root tty     4,   9 Feb 18  2009 tty9
> crwxr-xr-x 1 root root  204,  16 Mar 16  2006 ttyAM0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root         5 Sep  1 02:35 ttyAM1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root         5 Sep  1 02:35 ttyAS1
> crw------- 1 root tty     4,  64 Sep  1 03:17 ttyS0
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root        34 Sep  1 02:58 ttyS1
<snip>

> ts7800:~# echo hola > /dev/ttyS1

This is the proper dev entry, although it appears you have created a file named 
/dev/ttyS1. I don't know what udev will do if a file already exists with the 
same name it is trying to create...

In summary I'd recommend deleting the files you've created in the dev 
directory, and ensuring udev is running if you are booted to Debian or calling 
mdev -s if you are in the initial ramdisk.

Regards,
Eddie



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