[Coco] DriveWire 4 and Linux serial port

[Allen Huffman]

> On Feb 8, 2015, at 5:41 AM, Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>> 
>> Now, since I have multiple serial ports on the Linux machine, I would still need a way to tell it which one to use. I expect the GUI lets me select, but I do not have access to the GUI.
> 
> You can run the server on the RPi and the GUI on another machine and
> configure it from there.


Yeah, that's what I ended up doing, and I formatted my first /x0 in-memory image. I tried to get X running on the PI first, but I don't have a mouse there, and couldn't use any of the menus in the DW app. Ugh.

It's a huge hassle to get VNC and all the stuff installed just to set a serial port. I spent an hour Googling and trying to resolve issues because the Pi Linux has evolved a bit since most of the answers were written. I also had to do a few more installs just to make the GUI able to run. So many steps! Linux is a monster.

I want to be able to show folks how to install a Pi image, install Java and DW, edit some simple things, then have it running. 

Hopefully it is possible.

		-- A