I just got my SSC-32 yesterday, and am going to be writing software over christmas to control it from my gentoo-ona-slug embedded linux boxen. Shouldn’t be too hard in C, but I haven’t done any serial programming in some time, I figured it would be nice to test things with lynxterm from my embedded gentoo box. Or better yet, use it as reference when writing my own software.
Anyone know if there’s a hidden linux version out there for lynxterm, or if the sourcecode is floating about? Thanks!
I am in the process of building up a Gentoo 2006.1 system right now. 
I already have X up and running with Blackbox and Windowmaker as WMs and am just starting to build KDE.
You don’t really need LynxTerm. I had my FreeBSD setup talking to an SSC-32 using minicom at 115200 just fine. It shouldn’t be any harder with Linux.
Of course, if LynxTerm has special features for the SSC-32, it might be nice to have that for Linux. 
8-Dale
Ah, welcome to gentoo. It’s a fantastic distro, and if you manage it well you can keep it running forever. I’m happy to have it running on my nslu2, I’ve run gentoo on x86, amd64, ppc, and now Xscale
It’s a great developer platform. Anyway, I digress…
Yeah, I have minicom on my mini-gentoo box, so I guess I’ll just use that for testing until I start getting my code together. Also have one of these working on that little box: tinyurl.com/yxc6c5
Will look nice once I have all the electronics mounted into a project box. Well, nice to know theres other linux dweebs out there, I’m sure I’ll be posting back here in frustration in the next few days
I have been running Gentoo for awhile also. I prefer building the system from sources as with the *BSDs.
I also had Python, with the py-serial addon, talking to an SSC-32.
Very cool! I noticed when I was configuring my kernel, there are drivers for Phidget stuff, so naturally I included them.
Yes, we are here, even if we are lurking in the shadows. I remember Linux kernel v0.98, which is when I started out with my first Linux distribution (very early Slackware, if I remember correctly), so that must really date me. I just wish there were more and better Open Source tools for Linux and PICs. There are a few things, but not as much as say for the ARM or AVR chips.
8-Dale
