Re: Serial port software

2019-11-28 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: > How close you can get to "proper RS232 serial port operation" > will probably be limited by the USB <-> serial chip in that cable. Haha indeed there is too much junk out there. I did some research years ago and bought one with prolofic chip (made in Taiwan). It is definitely

Re: Serial port software

2019-11-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 11/27/19 7:38 PM, John Hasler wrote: Paul Sutton wrote: We have need, at the South Devon Tech Jam to gain access to a switch that has a serial port, but using the serial port, (having issues using the switch ip address). I have a netbook running debian along with a usb -> 9 pin serial conne

Re: Serial port software

2019-11-27 Thread John Hasler
Paul Sutton wrote: > We have need, at the South Devon Tech Jam to gain access to a switch > that has a serial port, but using the serial port, (having issues using > the switch ip address). > > I have a netbook running debian along with a usb -> 9 pin serial > connector cable. and have been asked t

Re: Serial port software

2019-11-27 Thread songbird
Paul Sutton wrote: ... > Hi > > We have need, at the South Devon Tech Jam to gain access to a switch > that has a serial port, but using the serial port, (having issues using > the switch ip address). > > I have a netbook running debian along with a usb -> 9 pin serial > connector cable. and have b

Re: Serial port software

2019-11-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 08:43:04AM +, Paul Sutton wrote: > "Something that gives as close to a proper RS232 serial port operation > as possible." busybox microcom -s /dev/ttyUSB... There's no need to install anything, you usually have busybox already. Reco

Re: Serial port software

2019-11-27 Thread Thomas Pircher
Paul Sutton wrote: > "Something that gives as close to a proper RS232 serial port operation > as possible." As someone mentioned already, cutecom is a nice graphical interface. If you work on the console then I'd suggest picocom. It has fewer features than minicom (e.g. kermit, rzsz integration),

Re: Serial port software

2019-11-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2019 27 Nov 02:44 -0600, Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > We have need, at the South Devon Tech Jam to gain access to a switch > that has a serial port, but using the serial port, (having issues using > the switch ip address). > > I have a netbook running debian along with a usb -> 9 pin serial >

Re: Serial port software

2019-11-27 Thread basti
Hello, use minicom or screen for example. screen -t 'ttyUSB0 115200 8n1' /dev/ttyUSB0 115200,-ixoff,-ixon On 27.11.19 09:43, Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > We have need, at the South Devon Tech Jam to gain access to a switch > that has a serial port, but using the serial port, (having issues using

Serial port software

2019-11-27 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi We have need, at the South Devon Tech Jam to gain access to a switch that has a serial port, but using the serial port, (having issues using the switch ip address). I have a netbook running debian along with a usb -> 9 pin serial connector cable. and have been asked to install software to allo