[Voyage-linux] Serial port on alix 3d3 using /dev/ttyS0

[Rajarajan Rajamani]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Rajarajan Rajamani
> <r.rajamani at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to use the serial port on the alix 3d3 using voyage 8.5
>> and am unable to talk to my device (an X10 home automation dongle)
>> using /dev/ttyS0. I search around and say this posting on the voyage
>> mailing list.
>
> Can you confirm that you selected ALIX profile when you created the
> Voyage Linux image?
>
> With ALIX profile the grub menu is configured to show up on the
> /dev/ttS0 port of the ALIX board.
> I have done it on several boards w/o any issues.
>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk/msg02928.html
>>
>> I would like to know if anyone is able to use the DB9 serial port and
>> if /dev/ttyS0 is the right device. I checked /etc/inittab and the line
>> for getty on ttyS0 is commented out. Appreciate any clues.
>
> /dev/ttyS0 is the console in this case; all output goes to this device.
>
> -- Arun Khan
>

To my recollection I did chose the ALIX profile when configuring stuff
on the SD.
I'll check it again from home. Since the 3D3 has the VGA port,
I have confirmed that the grub menu did show up on the VGA port. I am
not getting any characters on the serial port.

I also went through the settings on the Award BIOS and did not notice
anything specific regarding the serial port.

Raj