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On 11/27/19 7:38 PM, John Hasler wrote: Paul Sutton wrote:We have need, at the South Devon Tech Jam to gain access to a switch that has a serial port, but using the serial port, (having issues using the switch ip address). I have a netbook running debian along with a usb -> 9 pin serial connector cable. and have been asked to install software to allow serial connection. "Something that gives as close to a proper RS232 serial port operation as possible." As there seems to be a wide range of options presented by 'apt search serial' I decided to ask here for recommendations please.Use Minicom, or Xminicom to provide a bit of comfort to text-mode phobics. How close you can get to "proper RS232 serial port operation" will probably be limited by the USB <-> serial chip in that cable. You might want to review https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html Section 14 has a good list of software.
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