Minicom can work pretty well if you just set your profile to 9600 and the right serial port. Then, I just alias minicom to 'minicom -o' to keep it from initializing my modem when I run it. Then you just have to make sure all your serial devices are set to 9600 and be consistent there.
>From a hardware perspective, a good serial console server can be a very easy way never to have to think about this again. I've got an old Xyplex at work, but I've used much newer nicer ones in the past, and they are indispensable for "local console" access from everywhere without having to plug and unplug stuff manually. -N On Tuesday 23 September 2008 17:10, Alan Johnson wrote: > I've been using minicom (or trying to) to manage some network devices over > their serial ports, but it is not pretty. Minicom appears to be too > focused on modems to work well with my serial devices. I'm sure there is a > better way, but I just can't seem to find it. I'm looking for something > provides the functionality that hyperterm does where you can just say > "connect to this port and at out of the way". But, of course, I to use it > on remote servers via ssh, so it can't actually be a GUI. Any > suggestions? Maybe a way to config minicom that I haven't found yet? > > Thanks in advance! > > __________________ > Alan Johnson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
