Com Ports 0 And 1, Console Port; How To Set The Rs-232/485 Modes; How To Use The Ethsetserial Utility To Configure The Com Ports - Eurotech DynaGate 10-12 Series User Manual

DynaGATE 10-12 User manual Rev. 0-14
11.9

COM ports 0 and 1, Console port

The DynaGATE 10-12 exposes the COM ports as follows:
COM port 0:
l
COM port 1:
l
Console port
l
You need to configure the serial ports mode before they will work.
11.9.1

How to set the RS-232/485 modes

You can configure the serial port mode in the following ways, A or B:
A. Using the ethsetserial utility
B. Implementing the ioctl in the source code
11.9.1.1

How to use the ethsetserial utility to configure the COM ports

To set COM port 1 to RS-232 mode, enter the following command:
ethsetserial –p ttyO3 –m232
To set COM port 1 to RS-485 mode, enter the following command:
ethsetserial –p ttyO3 –m485
To see all the available options, enter the following command:
ethsetserial –h
/dev/ttyS4 (available on the front panel)
/dev/ttyS3 (available on the front panel)
/dev/ttyS0 (available in the Service Panel)
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