X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <7c5010d60805291002hbf4096dvb528407f9d12a9c8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 19:02:40 +0200 From: "Giovanni Maruzzelli" <gmaruzz DOT lists AT gmail DOT com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: serial ports not visible with 1.7 under Vista In-Reply-To: <20080529165211.GC15731@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7c5010d60805290558o3717c302u959dd34f396cdb81 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <005a01c8c196$587b9b50$2708a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <7c5010d60805290726s4faa42e2l4dc276e0118b8808 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <007901c8c19c$cd9bd520$2708a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <7c5010d60805290811i38d4464y7da05d2d62f2061 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <008001c8c19f$ad1bcbe0$2708a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <7c5010d60805290840s300f607ep999ff62720fedadb AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <008701c8c1a7$251d8550$2708a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <20080529165211 DOT GC15731 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Correction, my last post was ambiguous: \\\\.\\com6 gives me "Device or resource busy", while all other com* give me "not existing". So, it is definitely better, it finds something! But do not yet works. ====> Opening and read/writing to COM6 with native win32 API (readfile etc) works well, both compiled with and without -mno-cygwin On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:15:00PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >>Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote on 29 May 2008 16:41: >> >>> Thanks a lot Dave! >>> >>> Seems that it is looking for a \Device\Serial5 >> >> Ouch. That's a problem. Not all serial devices use the same name format. > > So what format do they use? > >> Although it's not strictly supported, you might be able to work around it >>by using "\\\\.\\com6" instead. > > That is not likely to work with Cygwin. It won't recognize it as a serial device. > > cgf > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/