Hi All,
I want to monitor serial port data under QNX system. Is there any tool in QNX to sniff the devc-ser8250 driver?
Gary,
Not that I am aware of.
But you could get the source to devc-ser8250 and add some simple code to dump out the raw data sent/received to a file (on a RAM drive if you need real speed).
Tim
Hi Gary
I have been working with serial ports and stepper motors and other custom serial protocols where I had to literaly sniff them (hack) to document a communication and then recreate this flow to control devices.
My approch to this was to set up a QNX computer and hook it up between the send/rec devices, and on that QNX sniffer (I think I used a laptop) use a simple read and write application that takes what it finds on the receiving port and relays it to the sending port and vice versa, even thou I had realtime to consider it worked perfectly, on the sniffer app that I wrote I could then detect the protocol and alter it so that I could see packages of messages being send back and forth. and ofcourse logg it to a file.
This was a truly powerful way of monitoring the “real” traffic as it happened for me. even thou it takes an extra computer (slow old one) it is a good tool to have at other cases when you are not using QNX on both sides, that way I could hook it up between Windows-QNX comunication as well as to stepper motor controllers-QNX or controller-Windows devices.
It was even good to have when I was at customers tracking bugs and problems in all kinds of serial systems. 
If you are interested , please let me know and I will have a look where I have that code.
/Jörgen
P.S. I have used the same app for RS232 and RS422/485 and it can probably be used for other interfaces as well.
Hi,
I have also done sniffer programs in QNX. Its simple. Just plug in a sniffer serial cable to a 3rd machine with QNX. Execute the sniffer app ritten by u which is just a simple serial read write program. It will definitely work. Always remember the sniffer application u wrote should be set in the same baud and data rate in which ur serial communication works
isn`t that what qtalk does?
no one mentioned “devc-ditto” ?
True, qtalk seems possible to use, for some reason I found it hard to adapt to my liking and I wanted to “partition” the result without having all that “modem” oriented behaviour, since I did not do modems at the time, but still, try qtalk first . .
I did not have control of the sender/receiver at all so I had to sniff the physical signals.
sometimes simpler is better . .
/Jörgen