I have a netbook which has no serial port. However I use my netbook to connect to Cisco network devices via serial to USB converter. I installed Minicom on my netbook and I don't know how I can tell Minicom to use my USB port rather than default to /dev/ttyS0.
Can anyone tell me how I can change or point Minicom to use my USB port so my serial to USB will work?
Initially i wrongly entered the serial port device as ttys0 and save it. It wont reply due to wrong device selection. Actual device is ttyS0 and i select this and try to save it as dfl,but an message appear as 'cannot write to /etc/minicom/minirc.dfl'
So i have to configure each and every time i open the minicom. how to configure this correctly?
I use Minicom on the recenet Ubunto Linux and have a single USB 2 serial device and my Minicom doesn't have 57600 for selection.
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I have an embedded system connected to the PC via null-modem. The embedded machine is to "redraw" the screen on the PC every second. Right now it sends the Form Feed command (0Ch) and sends the screen data down to the end of the page. The flow in detail as seen from the embedded sytem:
1) send FF (0Ch)
2) send text "blah blah one two and so on .."
3) goto step 1
This approach works but the minicom screen on the PC flickers due to the Form Feed command. So I need to find a way to move the cursor up (like a reverse vertical tabulation) to the upper left corner of the screen without using the Form Feed command. In a HOWTO I found something like "vertical coupling" that may be used for such cases, but no more hints than that.
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Unfortunately my laptop doesn't have a built in serial port so I can't tell if its a general problem or something specific to the /dev/ttyUSB0 device. This is the output I get when I run minicom with my regular user account. I get the same output whether the lock file location is set to /tmp or /var/lock
Code:minicom usb0 Device /dev/ttyUSB0 lock failed: Permission denied. Before I started tinkering my user belonged to the following groups groups=16(dialout),33(video),100(users) I've since added 5(tty),14(uucp),21(console) but still no joy.
I installed Fedora 12 in my PC and after that when I tried to use minicom it was not installed. I tried copying the executable of minicom in /usr/bin from another PC and tried using it. But, I was not able to enter any commands in minicom..
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Supposing I use ssh to the x86 server, could minicom be used over the serial lines without terminating the minicom processes seen through VNC? If not, is there a way to re-open those windows from within the ssh session, so a user who VNCs to the server won't have to reopen them? Could a single ssh connection control two minicom terminals simultaneously, or would there need to be two ssh connections? It is assumed a user and the automated process will *not* try to access the device at the same time; the automation would trigger during off hours.
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A - Serial Device: /dev/ttyS0
B - Lockfile Location: /var/lock
C - Callin Program:
D - Callout Program:
E - Bps/Par/Bits: 9600 8N1
F - Hardware Flow Control: Yes
G - Software Flow Control: No
...and relaunched minicom hoping that it would connect. It does not. It just sits there with a blinking cursor and an "Offline" status.I also attempted to use cu to connect to the Sunfire using the following:# cu -l /dev/ttyS0 -s 9600.I just get the "Connected" message. No prompt, no anything. It just sits there. Same situation on the Sunfire V210.
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I have a router with linux firmware and attached to it a USB modem with which I can do both data and voice.Any other command send through echo method works ok. I was able to send SMS, edit phonebook and many many other stuff, but not make a call.So what is different from sending the call command within Minicom 2.5 and echo it?
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The minicom status line reads offline. Is this part of the problem or is this normal (I never really noticed it before.) All settings on the gage device match the minicom settings.
I am running kubuntu 9.04. I have minicom, Gtkterm and Putty installed. minicom seems to be really good, but I am missing scroll back functionality on there. Either that or I'm a novice with it and don't know how to do it. Putty is a GREAT app. But what I'm finding is that after the terminal runs for a bit, the screen shows characters from the previous lines and goofs up the output. If I move the window, the gibirish disappears. gtkterm is adding several empty lines to any of the screen output.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am using a Prolific pl2303 USB<=>Serial adapter. dmesg reports everything seems ok when I plug it in (see below) but when I open the ttyUSB0 port in minicom, it is always offline and nothing works. Also, minicom reports:
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If I plug the adapter into a different machine (Windows) everything works fine. The serial port is setup correctly (9600-8-N-1) What can I do to get this working?
usb 5-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 5-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
pl2303 5-2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
usb 5-2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
usb 5-2: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303
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I am having no luck configuring ProFTPd on a Debian Lenny production server we use to host our MySQL databases and a few websites. I had originally set it up so I could login and manage our internal sites, but I have the need to allow a few clients in to access their sites that we host. I am trying to root the users in their site directory, which would be "/sites/www.whatever.com/".
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i have a HP MSA 2312fc SAN with 2 LUNs configured. The first LUN (LUN ID 1) is correctly connected to the system, but when i connect the second LUN (LUN ID 30), i find in the syslog this message: multipathd: 8:64: size 6835937472, expected 5267578112. Discard
Here is the multipath.conf
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So I correctly see the two luns, but multipath doesn't create the relative devices. Under /dev/mapper I see: control mpath0 mpath0-part1 mpath0-part1 is the first lun, the one I mounted in a directory under filesystem. I can't find the device for the second lun
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My really dumb question is, do I have to reboot both the server and the client machines every time I change the SAMBA configuration? I thought I just had to stop and restart the SAMBA service in the SWAT software - but then the server disappears from my client. It looks like I need to reboot both machines for the client to see the server.
I have some errors when run the mount -all command: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc5, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so Failed to open /proc/filesystems: No such file or directory
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I am using Centos 5. I got one error unexpectedly after some configuration for rsync and folder settings. The error i am getting is "Serve Authorization directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to /var/gdm but does not exist. Please correct the configuration and restart GDM." after rebooting.
I tried to resolve the issue by setting permission for folder /var/gdm to 755. but the problem is still not resolved.
I have a PC104 running debian. I have 3 hard drives (in addition to the one booting) mounted in fstab by UUID. I use the options defaults,error=remount-ro. However, this means that when I boot with the hard drives not attached, I have to press Ctrl-D to bypass when the boot discovers the drives are missing. Is there a timeout commandoption I can add to fstab so that it automatically continues booting even if the hard drives are not attached? I could not find anything on a timeout command. (I tried adding timeout=1000 but no-random guess)
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