Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-04-20 Thread Samuel Tardieu
> "Snarkout" == Snarkout writes: Snarkout> My experience has been that minicom is the best emulator for Snarkout> interfacing with serial devices. I have tried as many as I Snarkout> could get my hands on, too, FWIW ($DAYJOB = noc monkey). IME, Snarkout> If you ever have a large config you

Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-04-01 Thread Snarkout
My experience has been that minicom is the best emulator for interfacing with serial devices. I have tried as many as I could get my hands on, too, FWIW ($DAYJOB = noc monkey). IME, If you ever have a large config you need to drop on a device (or even not-so-large) most others fail in various

Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-04-01 Thread Manne Merak
On 03/31/2010 08:17 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Jost wrote: Otherwise, you can just use GNU screen ("screen /dev/ttyUSB0", or gtkterm. I've used both of them with a USB to serial adapter and I could connect to Cisco switches without any problem.

Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-03-31 Thread Helgi Kristvin Sigurbjarnarson
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:17:15PM -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Jost wrote: > > Otherwise, you can just use GNU screen ("screen /dev/ttyUSB0", or > > gtkterm. I've used both of them with a USB to serial adapter and I could > > connect to Cisco switches wit

Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-03-31 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Jost wrote: > Otherwise, you can just use GNU screen ("screen /dev/ttyUSB0", or > gtkterm. I've used both of them with a USB to serial adapter and I could > connect to Cisco switches without any problem. I just installed gtkterm and it worked perfect. My on

Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-03-31 Thread Marq Schneider
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:39, Carlos Mennens wrote: > Does anyone know how I can tell my Arch system that I have a USB to > serial adapter connected to my machine? If you don't need any of the modem features provided in minicom, I would recommend trying picocom from AUR [0]. It provides a very

Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-03-31 Thread Leandro Costa
You can use minicom -s to enter the configuration menu, from there you can change your serial device. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Thomas Jost wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:39:06 -0400, Carlos Mennens > wrote: > > Guys, > > > > I have a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter. Now I am trying to be

Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-03-31 Thread Thomas Jost
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:39:06 -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > Guys, > > I have a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter. Now I am trying to be able to > connect to a Cisco switch via console serial cable using the Minicom > utility. My problem is I don't know how to tell Minicom that my serial > device is c

[arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-03-31 Thread Carlos Mennens
Guys, I have a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter. Now I am trying to be able to connect to a Cisco switch via console serial cable using the Minicom utility. My problem is I don't know how to tell Minicom that my serial device is connected to /dev/ttyUSB0 or maybe it already knows & I just don't know