Are these your serial port settings?
Baud rate: 115200
Data bits: 8
Parity: NONE
Stop bits: 1
Flow control: NONE
I ran into the same issue before, by having one of these wrong
On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 1:12 PM David Anthony <d...@silentsystems.org> wrote:
> I wonder if I purchased a bad cable... I see partial ASCII words, like:
>
> U�quit�
>
> But mostly I see non-printable characters. Attaching/reattaching the
> cable doesn't seem to solve it either. It's a USB-to-RJ45 Serial cable.
>
> On 10/3/21 12:29 PM, Yifei Zhan wrote:
> > On 10/3/21 15:07, David Anthony wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm attempting to use cu to connect to an EdgeRouter PoE device. I am
> >> in the dialer group. I am running the following command in an Xterm
> >> window:
> >>
> >> $ cu -l cuaU0 -s 115200
> >>
> >> The following command appears to succeed, but (mostly) gibberish is
> >> returned to my terminal. I'm not sure if it's non-printable ASCII or
> >> I'm doing something seriously wrong. Official documentation on this
> >> device claims a baud rate of 115200. Any ideas?
> >>
> >
> > This happened to my edgerouter awhile ago and unplug/replug both ends
> > of the serial adapter should fix it.
> >
> > The baud rate for it has always been 115200 AFAIK.
> >
> >
>
>
