[maemo-developers] Connecting RS232 devices to N800 hosting OS2008

[From: Winston Wu]

Would you mind using the Bluetooth interface instead of USB on the N800 for 
your RS-232 device?
You can get serial-to-Bluetooth converter like this one: 
http://www.rovingnetworks.com/blueportxp.htm
Just a thought...



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aleksey Yashchenko" <tuxslayer at gmail.com>
To: <maemo-developers at maemo.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:07 AM
Subject: Connecting RS232 devices to N800 hosting OS2008


> Hi All,
>
> There was several threads about using N800 USB host mode, and
> Sebastian told us that its no problem to use N800 USB with Silabs
> Serial converter.
>
> I need to connect an RS232 device to N800 with OS2008 image uploaded.
>
> The questions is:
>
> How should I use this port?
> a) will it be available as serial port? (some kind of tty?) where I
> should look for drivers?
>
> b) Should I communicate thru it as thru USB device? Any suggestions on
> API, libraries? Or maybe I can just open() some character device from
> /dev/ and read/write it? how in this case writed data will be mapped
> to serial port's output?
>
> c) for serial port I need to set up the baud rate, stop bits, etc. how
> should I deal with it when device is connected thru USB?
>
> Thanks for any ideas!
>
> Best regards,
> Aleksey Yashchenko
> _______________________________________________
> maemo-developers mailing list
> maemo-developers at maemo.org
> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
>