On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:22:40AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:13:44AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > > > You might want to try connecting directly to the serial port using a serial > > terminal program for troubleshooting. I don't think there is any terminal > > program installed under Ubuntu by default. I tend to install "cu", an > > ancient > > thing that most folks here probably shun. I don't know any other preferred > > Linux terminal program but I'm sure someone here will suggest a better one. > > A quick google suggests "minicom" and "GTKTerm" as more usable linux > serial port terminal programs. It appears that GTKTerm is already installed > on a default Ubuntu system. Not sure if that's true on a Fluxbuntus > system.
GTKterm is not, in fact, pre-installed on my Ubuntu 8.04 system (although the page I found by googling suggested that it might have been on older systems). But it's easily installed with synaptic. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." -- R. Bach _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
