minicom 1.83.1 hangs

[Lukas Ruf <ruf@rawip.org>]

Dear all,

recently, I bought an external ADSL modem.  To configure this modem at
the command line level, I needed to connect via a serial interface
(RS-232) with no flow control and no initialisation methods.

So, I removed all the entries accessible when starting minicom as root
su -c "minicom -s".

However, when I try start minicom, it hangs.  Neither ALT-Z nor any
other keystroke works.

Does anyone have any idea how I could fix this problem?

Maybe it is due to the terminal emulation minicom imposes (VT102 while
Windows Hyperterminal shows VT100).  How can I change this to VT100?
Using 
setenv TERM VT100
does not help anything.

Thanks for any help!
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Lukas Ruf
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