Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

[Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:14:21AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> As an alternative to minicom, 'screen' also makes a useful serial terminal 
> program.  At least on OS X, I often do something like this to talk to 
> routers and the like:
> screen /dev/tty.usbserial 9600
>
> "Ctrl-A Shift-K" will exit.  "Ctrl-A i" will give you a nice little display 
> of what the serial control lines are doing.
>
> I haven't tried it under Linux, but it should work the same.  Of course 
> you'd substitute /dev/ttyS0 or whatever device you're using for 
> /dev/tty.usbserial.

I tried it on a sid box, but just end up with screen showing a shell on
the local host, i.e., the same as without those arguments.

Ken

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Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu