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KSermon Version 0.3.1
=====================
ksermon is an system-utility to watch the activities on a given serial
port. The current state of the TX,RX,CTS,RTS,DTR,DSR,DCD and RI lines are
shown by some kind of LEDs. Furthermore, the current TX/RX transfer rates
are visualisized using bars and within an osziloscope (this is nice to
analyse the transfer characteristics). Additionaly, you can watch the
online-time (depended to the DCD-Signal) and the amount of received
and transmitted data since the serial-device was opened the first time.
Take a look at the homepage of ksermon:
http://www.lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/~kuhn/ksermon/
Usage
=====
As ksermon uses the session-management system from KDE, the user
has only to start the programm, and then choose the
device to observe from the Options->Preferences menu.
It is also possible to change the update interval and the
maximum displayed transfer-rate during runtime within the
Preferences
Compiling
=========
For proper compilation, you will have to install the kernel-patch included
in sermon-0.23; For proper execution, will have to recompile the kernel!
Then, just type "make", but be shure, that Qt and KDE are installed and
$QTDIR and $KDEDIR are set properly.
Type "make install" to install the binary and the Manual-pages (html).
Be sure that you are superuser, when doing this.
The program has been successfully compiled for linux-2.0.36 and
linux-2.2.0-pre1, using Qt 1.40, KDE-1.0 and serialmon-0.23 from Peter Fox
(fox _at_ roestock.demon.co.uk).
Knwon Bugs
==========
- - Errors are displayed in the terminal, if the size to small
to draw an osziloscope.
- - O-scope does not rescale when maximum rate is changed
- - Better start ksermon, before using a serial line (i.e. with kppp).
Doing it vice verca may hang uo the line (don't know why).
- - The Preferences look very ugle, when using Motif-Style or large fonts.
Tell me, if you find more :-)
Troubleshooting
===============
- - Sometimes ksermon needs the suid-bit set. This may be the case,
when the process using the serial line has suid (i.e. pppd).
- - Sometimes it is better to use /dev/cua[0-3] instead of /dev/ttyS[0-3]
Copyright
=========
This program and documentation is copyright B. Kuhn
(kuhn _at_ eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de) and distributed under the GPL
(see COPYING).
Copyright notices are not to be removed or altered.
Warranty
========
There is NO WARRANTY for this program.
This program has been compiled on my machine using gcc 2.7.2,3 Qt 1.40,
KDE-1.0, sermon-0.23 and linux-[2.0.36|2.2.0-pre1), and it seems to work
for me.
Thanks
======
Thanks to Peter Fox for his excelent serial device extension !
Special thanks to all people sending me bug-reports.
Bernhard Kuhn
Tue Jan 13 01:58:28 MET 1998
History
=======
0.2 inital version
0.2.1 minor bugfixes
0.2.2 smif: reopen line, when have been hunged up
pref: set correct initial values for sliders
oszi: pixmap-resize is done nicer now
0.2.3 minor changes - unofficial
0.2.4 ledtoolbar and texttoolbar digged out, bugfixes - unofficial
0.3.0 cleanups and bugfixes in pref
Online-Timer depends on DCD-Signal now
0.3.1 smif,pref: RC-lowpass-filter implemented; bugfixes
LSM-Entry
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Title: ksermon
Version: 0.3.1
Entered-date: 31-DEC-1998
Description: ksermon is an system-utility to watch the activities on a
given serial port. The current state of the TX,RX,CTS,RTS,
DTR,DSR,DCD and RI lines are shown by some kind of LEDs.
Furthermore, the current TX/RX transfer rates are visualisized
using bars and within an osziloscope (this is nice to
analyse the transfer characteristics). Additionaly, the count
of received and transmitted data since program start is
displayed.
Keywords: graphical serial line monitor, Qt, KDE, serialmon
Author: kuhn _at_ lpr.ei.tum.de (Bernhard Kuhn)
Maintained-by: kuhn _at_ lpr.ei.tum.de (Bernhard Kuhn)
Primary-site: http://www.lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/~kuhn/ksermon
~90k ksermon-0.3.1.tgz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/network/serial/
~90k ksermon-0.3.1.tgz
Platforms: Linux 2.0.36 or Linux 2.2.0-pre1 with GCC-2.7.2.3,
Qt-1.40, KDE-1.0 and serialmon-0.23
Copying-policy: GPL
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| Bernhard Kuhn (kuhn[at]lpr.ei.tum.de) O|||OO||OO| |
| Laboratory for Process Control and Real-Time Systems O|||O|O|O|O |
| Technische Universit舩 Mchen Tel.+49-89-289-23732 O|||OO||OO| |
| 80290 Mchen, Germany Room 3944 Fax -23555 OOO|O|||O|O |
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