Re: Serial help - minicom?

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:16:26AM -0600, Nathan J. Malmberg wrote:
> 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 machine
> >with 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.

That should work yes.

I have used minicom for the first time successfully with a null modem
cable about 10 days ago.  It worked after starting it with

minicom -s

and then clearing out all the initialization codes for the modem and
specifying the serial port.

Regards.
Johann
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