Serial Basics

Assembled from FAQ. This section should give you some general information about serial ports. If you do not find what you want here, check into the Terminal and Dialup sections of the handbook.

The stty -a -f /dev/ttyd1 When you change the settings to this device, the settings are in effect until the device is closed. When it is reopened, it goes back to the default set. To make changes to the default set, you can open and adjust the settings of the ``initial state'' device. For example, to turn on XON/XOFF flow control by default for ttyd5, do: stty -f /dev/ttyid5 clocal cs8 ixon ixoff A good place to do this is in /etc/rc.serial. Now, an application will have these settings by default when it opens stty -f /dev/ttyld5 57600 Now, an application that opens