Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:48:42AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
> 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.
I googled for the Mac OS X screen manpage thinking it must be different,
but it's identical to the one on my linux box. Any other hints on how
that works or where/how it's documented?
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Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu
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