On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 09:37, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > I need to have a little chit-chat with my modem. I would have used > Seyon (or 'cu' with good old UUCP) in the past to do this but Seyon > does not seem to be in Cooker or Contribs (as urpmi can find it > anyway). > > What is in Cooker that can be used to connect a terminal (keyboard, > screen) to a serial (tty) so that I can issue commands to a modem? > If you are desperate and you only need to send few bytes, you can always edit a file manually with ghex or khexedit, open two terminals, put the port in raw mode, cat the file to the port in one terminal and cat the port answer to an other file.
stty -F /dev/ttySx raw baud parity etc cat /dev/ttySx > answer (in raw mode, it should wait for the answer to come) cat command > /dev/ttySx Except from that, I think I remember kppp allowed to send command to the modem but I haven't used it for years. Minicom maybe? Cheers, =o= kk1
