Re: Minicom problem

2017-09-15 Thread deloptes
Fred wrote: > The version is 2.6.1 running on Wheezy (sparc).  The speed is 9600 > baud.  Once it goes on line there is no problem.  It is just when the > program starts it starts off line. > > I just tried to determine if there is a timeout.  I found that when > minicom starts the status line sa

Re: Minicom problem

2017-09-15 Thread Fred
On 09/15/2017 01:21 AM, deloptes wrote: Fred wrote: Hi, I sometimes use minicom to talk to some equipment over a wired connection. Minicom comes up off line and I can't find what makes it go on line. I look through some of the menus and at some point it decides it is on line. Maybe it has a

Re: Minicom problem

2017-09-15 Thread deloptes
Fred wrote: > Hi, > > I sometimes use minicom to talk to some equipment over a wired > connection. Minicom comes up off line and I can't find what makes it go > on line. I look through some of the menus and at some point it decides > it is on line. Maybe it has a timeout. How can I make it cu

Re: Minicom problem

2004-02-05 Thread Kent West
Bobby Dunlap wrote: I don't really know if I am communicating with anyone or not, but here goes I am using Red Hat 8, start minicom, and immediately after the message "initializing modem" appears, the cursor hangs up, will not accept any keyboard input and never recieve the "OK" prompt to

Re: Minicom problem

2004-02-05 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 15:21, Bobby Dunlap wrote: > I don't really know if I am communicating with anyone or not, but here > goes > You're certainly communicating with people, just the wrong ones :) > I am using Red Hat 8, start minicom, and immediately after the message > "initializing mode

Re: Minicom problem

2002-02-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:51:25PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On 20 Feb 2002, John Hasler wrote: > > > Did you kill -9 pppd or have an uncontrolled shutdown while pppd was > > running? > > No. > > > > Changing group permissions on ttyS1 results in similar futility. > > > > What do you

Re: Re: Minicom problem

2002-02-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Paolo Falcone wrote: > If you'll check the properties of minicom via ls -l, you'll notice that > minicom is owned by user root and group uucp. I forgot what reason this is > so (is minicom using UUCP instead of standard TCP/IP? I think so...) It's not even UUCP, just flat bit

Re: Re: Minicom problem

2002-02-20 Thread Paolo Falcone
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: >On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Paolo Falcone wrote: > >> I tried adding my user account to group uucp, and it somehow solved it. > >Wow, that's hella-counter-intuitive. Is this a bug? (Though my gut >feeling says if I need to ask, it probably is) Not a bug nor counter-intuit

Re: Minicom problem

2002-02-20 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 20 Feb 2002, John Hasler wrote: > Did you kill -9 pppd or have an uncontrolled shutdown while pppd was > running? No. > > Changing group permissions on ttyS1 results in similar futility. > > What do you mean? What happens when you make ttyS1 group writeable? Nothing. Adding myself to uucp

Re: Minicom problem

2002-02-20 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Alan James wrote: > you sure ? "groups" says dialout ? you logged back in after adding yourself > to the group ? Yeah, I had already thought of this. > try "chmod g+w /dev/ttyS1" I did, to the same result. However, doing the suggestion adding myself to uucp worked, strange

Re: Minicom problem

2002-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Baloo writes: > crw-r-1 root dialout4, 65 Feb 20 05:21 ttyS1 Did you kill -9 pppd or have an uncontrolled shutdown while pppd was running? > Changing group permissions on ttyS1 results in similar futility. What do you mean? What happens when you make ttyS1 group writeable? --

Re: Minicom problem

2002-02-20 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 05:25:06AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > I can run and dail and otherwise use minicom as root, but if I try as a > regular user, I get > > minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied > > ls /dev/ttyS1 results in... > > crw-r-1 root dialout4,

Re: Minicom problem

2002-02-20 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Paolo Falcone wrote: > I tried adding my user account to group uucp, and it somehow solved it. Wow, that's hella-counter-intuitive. Is this a bug? (Though my gut feeling says if I need to ask, it probably is) -- Baloo

Re: Minicom problem

2002-02-20 Thread Paolo Falcone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: >I can run and dail and otherwise use minicom as root, but if I try as a >regular user, I get > >minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied > >ls /dev/ttyS1 results in... > >crw-r-1 root dialout4,

Re: Minicom problem

1999-02-05 Thread John Hasler
ktb writes: > I feel bad that I can't get this figured out but I have reread the > minicom man page and I can't figure out how to log on to my isp with > minicom. You *are* successfully logging in to your isp with minicom. That garbage you get is ppp starting up at the isp. Minicom, of course, d

Re: Minicom problem

1999-02-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Feb 1999q, ktb wrote: > > > > I feel bad that I can't get this figured out but I have reread the minicom > man page > and I can't figure out how to log on to my isp with minicom. I have rerun > pppconfig > I put in "binary.net" in the first line, which is my default. Using "chat" as >

Re: Minicom problem

1999-02-05 Thread ktb
> Quoting ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, I'm trying to use minicom to dial up my isp. It dials and then asks > > for a login and password. After I do this I get the following error: > > > > login: x > > Password:xx > > PPP session from (12.13.120.16) to 207.140.121.113 > > beginning.

Re: Minicom problem

1999-02-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, I'm trying to use minicom to dial up my isp. It dials and then asks > for a login and password. After I do this I get the following error: > > login: x > Password:xx > PPP session from (12.13.120.16) to 207.140.121.113 > beginning~y}#.!}!}!}~ >

Re: Minicom problem for Debian Newbie

1997-12-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I.B. Mackey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Using minicom in a regular console. Can't seem to get color. When I load >the with "minicom -t mc", error says "termcap database missing". I've >installed the termcap compatible package. You do not need the termcap package, o