Re: Quick question - com port

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:48:12PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 
> 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.

or "tip -speed dty0"

The 'dty' device may help if there is an getty/login on the same serial
port. 

        David

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