Todd -
Minicom'll do that too. Before you connect the serial cable, remove
the modem initialization string, set the baud rate to 9600-N-8-1 (at
least that's what our Ciscos, Sun E250, and Ultra 10 want), set the
port as appropriate, save the setup with a new name (serial.dfl, for
instance). You can now connect a null modem cable and invoke the
right configuration with "minicom serial.dfl".
I have a Linux "dumb terminal" with two serial ports set up to handle
two Suns, each on its own virtual console with a different copy of
minicom running with separate .dfl's (the only difference in the
config being the assigned port).
Be warned that if you fail to remove the modem init string before
connecting, you'll send weird characters to the serial port that may
crash the host machine. (Don't ask me to relate that
story. =)
-d
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Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
:Minicom (at first glance) appears to be more of a modem dialer. What
:program should I be using if I simply want to use the serial port to
:console into a null-modem-attached device, e.g. a headless Solaris box?
:
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