Re: Help: serial port/minicom

1999-04-13 Thread Bruce Sass
Hmmm, I don't do X, and therefore don't know about any differences between an xterm and the console. The only way I can get minicom to fire up without error messages, yet not work, is if I tell it to use a serial port that doesn't have a modem attached to it. i.e., I have modems on ttyS0 and tty

Re: Help: serial port/minicom

1999-04-13 Thread daishi
Actually, this is getting weirder. I've managed to get minicom to work when invoked from an xterm, but it still *doesn't* work when invoked from console. What does this mean? Is/was this all some terminal problem? (How might I go about fixing the problem is that's the case?) Thanks, d

Re: Help: serial port/minicom

1999-04-13 Thread daishi
g wrong? Is there a simple way to check? tia, d From: Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Help: serial port/minicom Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:32:07 -0600 (MDT) > Try: > Checking /etc/modules and commenting out "auto" if it is there. > > With my box, >

Re: Help: serial port/minicom

1999-04-12 Thread Bruce Sass
Try: Checking /etc/modules and commenting out "auto" if it is there. With my box, kerneld doesn't get the serial module loaded up fast enough. If that is not it... any error messages? -- On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Daishi Harada wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently installed 2.1, and I can't seem

Help: serial port/minicom

1999-04-12 Thread Daishi Harada
Hi, I recently installed 2.1, and I can't seem to get minicom to talk with the serial port properly. I have redhat installed and working on a separate partition, so I presume that it's not a hardware issue. I've setserial'ed the port and config'ed minicom so that (afaik) everything is the same be