On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Andrew Crawford wrote:
>
> > |--------| |--------|
> > | SERVER-|-serial------------RJ45-| LAPTOP |
> > |--------| |--------|
>
> When you say RJ45, do you mean ethernet?
>
> You can't connect a serial port to an ethernet port. It just plain won't
> work. What you can do is connect a serial port to a serial port, then use
> minicom or a similar package (which runs just fine in an xterm) to send
> and receive from the serial port. This is called terminal emulation.
Boo hiss :O) - we got the cabling for it - a serial cable with 2 male RJ45
connectors and an adaptor with female serial and female RJ45.
>
> An alternative to (the admittedly slightly clunky) minicom would be seyon,
> which is an entirely X-based terminal emulator. I'm sure others will have
> further suggestions.
>
Ahh - seyon was the one I was thinkin of - could not remember what it was
called. Nice one Andrew.
Monkey
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