On 28/04/2010 20:38, Peter Merchant wrote: > Hi, I am going to be 'playing' with some Cisco routers over the next few > weeks, and it is some years since I tried to use a terminal package from > a *nix environment. A forum comment from Ubuntu 7.1 suggests minicom or > gtkterm. > > Which is the easitest to set up and use, or can anyone recomment > another? I am a Kubuntu user. > > Thanks, > > Peter M.
I've always favoured Minicom for controlling serial devices in *nix. It's pretty easy to set up, easily available for Ubuntu, and not terribly difficult to set up. It'll also save you having to drag in the GTK dependencies for gtkterm (since you're using Kubuntu) -- Dan Wentworth http://www.phoenixdev.co.uk/ -- Next meeting: Unknown http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
