[lug] Serial Comm

[carl.wagner at level3.com]

What sort of problems with minicom?  I was having lots of 
problems with it until I turned off hardware flow control.  
(most of my cables are silver Staten with RJ45 ends 
connected to modular-to-db connectors.)

We have some linux boxes with no monitors  hooked to terminal
servers for console.  Don't know the exact config but if you
are still having problems I could get it.

On your ttyS0 thing, I would not trust the labels. It may have
been a "Hangover Monday" when they put them on.  Or possibly 
you have an internal modem?  If so, can you boot dos and use
something like procomm to find out what ports you have?  I would
make sure what is on what serial port since com1 and com3 share
an interrupt as well as com2 and com4 (ttyS0 and ttyS2,  ttyS1 
and ttyS3 under Linux) and unintentional interrupt sharing of 
serial ports has caused me a lot of problems.

Carl.

"Timothy C. Klein" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Anyone out there use a good serial communication program?  I have
> minicon, and I just hate it.  For whatever reason, we just don't get
> along.  In Debian, I can't find much else beyond Seyon, and I don't
> always have X.  Is there anything else that anybody uses?  I am trying
> to set up a serial console from my firewall to my main machine, both
> running Debian, but to no avail.  In the past, half of my problems
> usually involve minicom.
> 
> TIA,
> Tim
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