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Title: serial port communication through modem less cable
Post by: deven_01 on February 06, 2006, 06:26:36 AM

Hi friends
 I want to do  
 Two computer communication using modem less cable on serial port
 I have one cable with two linux machine that cable is serial port connection
 So how can i do this
 Regards
 Linux User

Title: serial port communication through modem less cable
Post by: Ricky on February 06, 2006, 04:35:53 PM

see this topic--> Serial connection between two computers (http://www.linuxsolved.com/forums/ftopic22.html)

Title: Device ttyS0 locked by pid 3475
Post by: deven_01 on February 07, 2006, 04:10:43 AM

Hi Ricky
 Thanks for your help
 After completing whole configuration I had given the command
 pppd /dev/ttyS0 nodetach
 I got the followinf
 Device ttyS0 is locked by pid 3475

Title: slattach
Post by: deven_01 on February 07, 2006, 03:57:33 PM

I want to communicate the two pc from serial port
 for that i configured my kernel to support serial port
 but still it given following error
 first one
 modprobe slip
 When i was given the above command it shows me following error
 FATAL: Module slip not found.
 when i was given following command
 slattach -p cslip -s 19200 /dev/ttyS0 &
 It gives me following error
 SLIP_set_disc(1): Invalid argument
 Can anybudy help me regarding to this
 Regards
 Linux user

Title: serial port communication through modem less cable
Post by: Ricky on February 10, 2006, 12:10:34 PM

deven.. .. I had written that tutorial with a help of friend but now no contact with him..

But to diagnose you can give a quick look to :
tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html

Title: Thanks for your help
Post by: deven_01 on February 13, 2006, 07:02:19 AM

Dear friend
 Thanks for your help
 i will try for this
 I had done the kernel configurtation using make menuconfig
 i make * entry infront of SLIP (Module from kernel configuration)
 After that I had tried but not getting success
 Regards
 Linux User