[Coco] DriveWire 4 and Linux serial port

[Bill Pierce]

The "dw" command does not use all those drivers (only dwio). The dw cmd also uses the "scdwv" and the "/N" and"/Nx" descriptors. But you still need what you ave for disk io.
The dw cmd is for direct access to the server and not disk io as the others.
Dw will allow you to do the things you need to do to set the server, but you still must have the port set right.
I'm sure Aaron will pipe in here and give you a config setting. I will check mine and see what I can find out in the mean time.
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Feb 8, 2015 5:49 am
Subject: [Coco] DriveWire 4 and Linux serial port


I am finally at a point where I can make use of the DriveWire cable I bought a 
decade ago :)

I do not have a mouse, etc. on my Raspberry Pi, so I need to run it headless. I 
can start the server using:

java -jar DW4UI.jar -debug -noui

...but how do I tell it what serial port I want it to use? I see a config.xml 
entry 

		<SerialDevice category="device" type="serialdev">COMxxx</SerialDevice>

...and I expect that's not correct for Linux, but placing /dev/ttyUSB0 there did 
not change anything when I restarted the server.

Also, I am not quite sure on the OS-9 site what needs to be done. I can't seem 
to find a walk-thru -- just bits and pieces. I merged:

rbdw dwio x0 x1 x2 x3

...together so I can load them for testing, but the "dw" command just returns 
ERROR #221 (module not found) so I am clearly missing something. I didn't see 
anything I thought I needed (term, midi, etc.) on this page:

https://sourceforge.net/p/drivewireserver/wiki/OS9_Modules/

...and in an old PDF document it just mentioned the ones I listed above.

Maybe it's almost ready other than serial port... Maybe I'm missing something 
critical. Anyone got a pointer to a Getting Started guide? The CoCopedia one is 
still being built.

		-- A

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