From: Stanislav Kolotinskiy <speedy.wizard@...>
Date: 2010-11-27T17:50:14+09:00
Subject: Ruby serialport

Hi all!

I am trying to find out, how should I work with the serialport
library. I have a 3G modem, ZTE MF637. I have a snippet of code to
test the library:

require 'rubygems'
require 'serialport'

sp = SerialPort.new('/dev/ttyUSB2',9600)
sp.write("AT\r\n")
sp.read_timeout = 2000
sp.read

I am trying it in two ways: as commands in irb and just as a script.
All commands go fine, but when I input "sp.read", the output is empty:

wizard@archie:/tmp/ruby-serialport$ irb
ruby-1.8.7-p302 > require 'rubygems'
 => true
ruby-1.8.7-p302 > require 'serialport'
 => true
ruby-1.8.7-p302 > sp = SerialPort.new('/dev/ttyUSB0',9600)
 => #<SerialPort:0xb76f39e0>
ruby-1.8.7-p302 > sp.read_timeout = 200
 => 200
ruby-1.8.7-p302 > sp.write("AT\r\n")
 => 4
ruby-1.8.7-p302 > sp.read
 => ""

The modem is fine, I tried to connect to Internet over it, and it
works. I even read the logs of pppd, and I saw that init strings pass
fine. What can I do?

Thanks a lot.

--
Stanislav Kolotinskiy.