B. Randy wrote: > Hello, > Very intersting ... I'll try it late. > Well, I suppose that you are under Win$ and you must notice that the > SERIAL link is a "funny" game. > > 1 - Use a modem-cable, to link the two RS232 ports of your PC or an > other RS232 on a other PC. > > 2 - Test with classics tools the communication. On Win$, there is "Hyper > Terminal", any other kind of tool is good. On Linux, "minicom" for > example. Configure the two tools : same speed, no hardware handshaking, > no software handshaking, same parity, same stop-bits. > After, when you type some words in one window, you must see the text in > the other. At this point, your link is good. > > 3 - Replace one of the tools (Hyper Terminal, minicom) by your Ruby > code. > Try to send some text. I'll take the example from : > http://ruby-serialport.rubyforge.org/ and make some modifications. > > require 'rubygems' > require 'serialport' > sp = SerialPort.new "COM1", 9600, 1, NONE > sp.write "Hello world !" > puts sp.read > > You should see the text on the new window. At this point, the soft is > good. > > You can play with a modem too. > > 4 - For you HW. I don't know the kind of your HW, so I'll be "large". > Don't forget to verify the protocol of your HW board. Some HW wants some > special escape caracters before and after the message, or special > sequence for initiate the link, or want work only in dialog mode. In > this later case when you send something you must read something, if you > don't make this the HW will block. > > Sangeeta Huddar wrote: > [...] >> now i want to use this and access the board .i tried d simple ways i >> could think but nothing worked :( > [...] >> can anyone help me with simple program to use serial.so >> or is there any other way i can connect to board via serial port >> thanks in advance, >> -sangeeta Hello, I installed the gem and ran the code. Message was written successfully. But I can't read the written data. It is waiting there. The device I opened was /dev/ttyS0. Help me to read the data from serial port. Thanks, Stalin .T -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.