how to establish direct serial connection in linux?

[keechye]

Hi experts,

I am a linux beginer, I am facing establish direct serial cable connection in order to get a router console, which is a notebook connected to a cisco router with a direct serial cable. In windows, we just need to use the Hyper Terminal software to establish this connection. It's simple and easy. But come to Linux, I don't know how to establish this connection. Please advice. Thanks.


Regards,
KeeChye

 

[Morsing]

There are several terminal programmes that can do this. Minicom and Seyon are just two.

Download Minicom from the net, start it with the '-s' option to configure it and set the serial device to /dev/ttyS0 if it's the first serial port.

Good luck
Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[keechye]

Hi Morsing,

It's work! Thanks your expertise. I have tried out minicom, it's quite useful. Some other suggest me to use Kermit or Cu. Did you use them before?


Regards,
KeeChye

 

[Morsing]

I havne't tried those. Minicom does everything I need.

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support