Bill Moseley wrote:
I've got an Access Point that has a serial port. The AP runs Linux (it's an Netgear WG302). I can't connect to it from Linux using minicom. After messing with it for an hour I brought out an old Win95 machinewith hyperterm and was able to connect no problem. So, AP and cable are working fine.I suspect it's minicom that's causing me problems. Likely flow control. Minicom always reports "OFFLINE".
I have no idea if this will help...When I set up a null modem connection using minicom, I had to set the modem initialization string and reset string to empty values so that minicom wouldn't send data that would scramble the remote system before I even got started. There are example scripts for this in /usr/share/doc/minicom/examples, which I incorporated into my own startup file.
Naturally, the user starting minicom has access to the serial port...For what it's worth, minicom always shows that I am offline on that connection, even as I am executing commands across the line.
I hope you figure out the difficulty, Nate
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