[ale] Trying to use minicom and get a console connection

[Gene Matthews]

Thanks for the reply Keith, but it turned out to be a setting in my 
laptop's BIOS for the serial ports.  They were set to 'auto'; I changed 
them to 'enabled' and it worked fine.

thanks,

gene

Keith Hopkins wrote:

> Gene Matthews wrote:
> 
>> Any minicom experts around?  I'm trying to use my linux (RH7.1) laptop
>> and minicom to connect to a remote terminal server's console port.
>>
>> I can do this successfuly on Windows using HyperTerminal, but I don't
>> have it working on Linux yet.
>>
>> I have
>>
>> A -    Serial Device      : /dev/ttyS0  (I've tried ttyS1 also)
>> B - Lockfile Location     : /var/lock
>> C -   Callin Program      :
>> D -  Callout Program      :
>> E -    Bps/Par/Bits       : 9600 8N1
>> F - Hardware Flow Control : No
>> G - Software Flow Control : No
>>
>> for the serial port setup.
>>
>>
>> This matches what I was using for HyperTerminal (COM1, 9600 8N1 w/ no
>> flow control) and I'm using the exact same cable.
>>
>>
>> The cable is a cat 5 (plugs into the console port of the term server)
>> and a RJ45 to 9pin converter on the other side for the pc serial port.
>>
>> I'd appreciate any thoughts/suggestions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gene
>>
> 
> What user are you using (root/non-root)?  What are the premissions on 
> your device files (/dev/ttyS#)?
> 
> Lost in Tokyo,
>   Keith
> 
> 
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