Re: [NTLK] Newton and newtonlink on redhat 7.2

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 09:12:26 EST

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On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Matt Wilson wrote:

> I am trying to connect to my MP2000 from linux... I downloaded and installed
> newtonlink1.30 and all went more or less OK.. until I went to connect to the
> Newton (newtonlink -getpnam from a terminal window) and I was presented with
> the following error
>
> Trying to connect to your Newton...
> sub send_line: write systemcall failed at
> /usr/lib/newtonlink-1.30/DeviceReadWrite.pl line 168

What Linux distribution are you running? Some distros won't let mere
mortal users have access to the serial ports. You can fix this by logging
in as root and:

chmod 777 /dev/<your serial device, probably ttyS0 or ttyS1>

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