Re: Using serial port

2003-03-25 Thread Gene Yoo
Al Sparks wrote: I'd just like to say, as someone who was just lurking, that this advice about minicom was great. I had been trying to redirect input from ttyS0 to a file using $ cat /dev/ttyS0 somefile and all I was getting was garbage. I was in the process of trying to figure out stty

Using serial port

2003-03-24 Thread Francisco Garcia
Hi, I need to use my serial port (COM1) to attach my laptop to a Cisco router's console port. I am using RH 8 and I want to know how to configure the port and what application I must use to open a console session in my Cisco router. Thanks, Francisco Garcia Network Engineer Marcatel

Re: Using serial port

2003-03-24 Thread Joe Polk
Make sure minicom is installed. It's a terminal program for accessing serial devices. COM1 should equal /dev/ttyS0. JAV On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:36, Francisco Garcia wrote: Hi, I need to use my serial port (COM1) to attach my laptop to a Cisco router's console port. I am using RH 8 and I want

Re: Using serial port

2003-03-24 Thread Gene Yoo
Francisco Garcia wrote: Hi, I need to use my serial port (COM1) to attach my laptop to a Cisco router's console port. I am using RH 8 and I want to know how to configure the port and what application I must use to open a console session in my Cisco router. Thanks, Francisco Garcia Network

Re: Using serial port

2003-03-24 Thread Michael Mansour
You can also use minicom to do that. Michael. --- Gene Yoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francisco Garcia wrote: Hi, I need to use my serial port (COM1) to attach my laptop to a Cisco router's console port. I am using RH 8 and I want to know how to configure the port and what application I

Re: Using serial port

2003-03-24 Thread Francisco Garcia
Very nice program, but I have a little problem: I need to become SU to open /dev/ttyS0.How can I give permission to other users? $ minicom -o Device /dev/ttyS0 access failed: Permission denied. Thanks a lot, Francisco On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 16:47, Joe Polk wrote: Make sure minicom is installed.

Re: Using serial port

2003-03-24 Thread Joe Polk
You could simply alter the permissions with chmod. JAV On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 18:58, Francisco Garcia wrote: Very nice program, but I have a little problem: I need to become SU to open /dev/ttyS0.How can I give permission to other users? $ minicom -o Device /dev/ttyS0 access failed:

Re: Using serial port

2003-03-24 Thread Al Sparks
I'd just like to say, as someone who was just lurking, that this advice about minicom was great. I had been trying to redirect input from ttyS0 to a file using $ cat /dev/ttyS0 somefile and all I was getting was garbage. I was in the process of trying to figure out stty settings, when I saw

Re: Using serial port

2003-03-24 Thread Joe Polk
Glad it's working for you. Yes, I too was a Procomm user. There was also a ProcommPlus for DOS back in the day even before the Windows version. It was simply a little more robust. And remember Telix!? I never liked it, but a lot of my buds used it. We're showing our age here...ugh. JAV On Mon,