Re: Quick question - com port

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On 17 Jan 2010, at 19:49, Paul Goyette wrote:
> so I need to use something like pkgsrc/comms/minicom to talk to it.

You don't need "minicom", "/usr/bin/cu" will do fine and not try to
send some "AT" commands over your serial port.

>  I've got a com0 configured in my "host" system, but there doesn't seem
> to be any /dev/com0 nor any way to coax /dev/MAKEDEV to create it.

Please try "cu -l /dev/tty00 -s <baud rate>" instead.

        Kind regards

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