On 4/11/10, Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-first@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
But what I don't seem able to do is have applications in Wine get to the serial port. And is there some kind of minicom package for windows that you should use, in the same way you can use the minicom on Linux, so that you can actually see the thing working?
Yes Hyperterm as previously suggested or newer builds of putty which might be a better bet as hyperterm is terrible and part of a windows installation. So you'd either have to hunt down an illegal source or "borrow" the exe and any dependencies from a working windows machine.
Sometimes people suggest you should make loopback by jumpering two of the leads on the serial cable. Have you tried that, and will it explode if you get the leads wrong? And what did you use, a bit of copper wire?
I can't think of a short of pins on serial that will do lasting damage, sure if you start to involve external voltages you can do some damage but a pin to pin short of something unintended when you were aiming for the rx and tx lines shouldn't break anything.