Re: Woody on IBM RS/6000 7025 F50

[George Karaolides <george.karaolides@planitis.net>]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Tom Gall wrote:

> George Karaolides wrote:
>
> > Any pointers on how to use Minicom to access the console on the serial
> > port?  I have a null modem cable right here but I haven't tried this
> > before.
>
> Just fire it up... connect 9600 8N1 ... just works!
>
> You can pass console=ttyS0,9600 then to use serial...
>

I've configured minicom to use the serial port, and have configured
minicom to use the port with 9600 8N1, but (stupid user level
question...) how do I actually connect?  Should minicom connect
automatically on startup, or do I have to issue a command or something?

Just for the record, I've verified that my null-modem cable works between
two Linux machines:

cat < /dev/ttyS0         # on machine 1
echo hello > /dev/ttyS0  # on machine 2
hello                    # on machine 1

Best regards,

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