[Coco] DriveWire 4 and Linux serial port

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Sun Feb 8 05:49:35 EST 2015


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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