How to find installed Serial Ports?

[buckeye]

I'm trying to get my built-in fax modem to send faxes with efax-gtk but it can't find my hardware.  I can't find my serial hardware using the PCLOS Control Center.  What is the utility to probe & verify my serial hardware is working? 

Ultimately I'd like to get my com ports to work with XP running in a Virtualbox.  I've tried a number of Vbox setting with no luck.  I can't see my serial ports in PCLOS, and XP can't see the COM ports in Vbox.

Is there a trick to this?

[menotu]

Any use buckeye ?

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/find-out-linux-serial-ports-with-setserial/

There is an app in the repos called "setserial"

[Was_Just19]

You might try

statserial   from the repository

A tool which displays the status of serial port modem lines
The statserial utility displays a table of the signals on a standard
9-pin or 25-pin serial port and indicates the status of the
handshaking lines.  Statserial is useful for debugging serial port
and/or modem problems.

[buckeye]

I followed the link.  Seems dmesg | grep tty is deprecated and it recommended setserial.

I used:

setserial -g /dev/ttyS[0123]

it gave me /dev/ttyS0 with a UART on it the others were "Permission denied".    setserial -g /dev/modem returned the same UART.

So next I tried minicom -s as admin to set a dfl file.  I set the Serial Device to /dev/ttyS0 then I ran minicom as admin and got:

minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS0: No such file or directory.

I tried setserial -g /dev/ttyS[0123] again and this time I got "Permission denied" on all ports.

I've been trying ttyS0 and ttyS1 in my terminal & fax software and they all complain about no port.  But the hardware is there.  It's a PCI fax/modem card.  Any ideas?

[buckeye]

Installed statserial & ran it on /dev/ttyS0.  It said:

statserial: can't open device `/dev/ttyS0': No such file or directory

and I can see why.  I looked at my /dev directory and ttyS0 is no longer there.  Somehow it was deleted.

from bad to worse, I guess.

[buckeye]

Is there a way to re-create the ioctl file for my ttyS0 serial device?

I think minicom deleted my ioctl file and replaced it with a plain text file in my /dev/ directory.

Thanks in advance.

[buckeye]

OK, I rebooted & ttyS0 is back in the /dev/ directory as an ioctl file.

[buckeye]

Just realized that my internal modem might be a Windows Softmodem and I doubt PCLOS has drivers for it.  ttyS0 might be the RS-232 interface port with nothing attached.  I'll get that hooked up to an external modem and report what happens in a little while.

The statserial command seems to be working and reports I/O pin status.  Once I get a break-out box hooked up I'll see if I can toggle the status pins.

Thanks all.

[T6]

nobody mentioned it, you are right, winmodems are crap but perhaps it has a driver, you should mention which modem is

serial external modems are the only real way on linux without loosing your sanity with ports and drivers

[buckeye]

Sure enough, ttyS0 works just fine.  statserial polls the modem control bits just fine & I can set/clear them with an RS-232 break out box.  Hooked up a Best Data 56K fax/modem & I can do AT commands to it.  When I send:

at+gcap

I get back:

+GCAP: +FCLASS,+MS,+ES,+DS

so it looks like the modem is working and supports fax 2 commands.  But it does not work with efax-gtk.  When I try to send a fax, efax errors out with the following log:

Socket running on port 9900
efax-0.9a: 23:02:16 opened /dev/modem
efax-0.9a: 23:02:17 using V3.210-V90_2M_DLSCONEXANTV90 in class 2
efax-0.9a: 23:02:17 dialing T<my email fax phone number here>
efax-0.9a: 23:02:31 The remote ID is  "   SpanDSP Fax Ident"
efax-0.9a: 23:02:31 connected
efax-0.9a: 23:02:58 Error: wrong response after command: +FDT
efax-0.9a: 23:02:58 Warning: wrong response after command: +FK
efax-0.9a: 23:02:58 failed page /home/stan_ely_k/Desktop/faxtest.pdf.001
efax-0.9a: 23:02:59 finished - invalid modem response

I tried to send a PDF and a PS file.  Same results both times.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[Was_Just19]

Is it sending the correct commands/syntax  for that modem?

Trying to recall when I last used one a few years ago ......  but there was somewhere to edit the commands sent .....

[buckeye]

Right, I think that's the problem.  The modem is a "Smart One 56SX-2" and I don't know what it's command set is.