Minicom giving weird characters on Debian

[Zotigo]

Hi, Just installed Minicom for Cisco Console connectivity and after setting it up according to

http://rblondon.blogspot.com/2007/09/configuring-minicom-on-ubuntu-to.html

, still get following automatically upon connecting and it goes on and on:

WAN>$ind computer addres^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HH^H^H^N>
WAN>% Unknownand orr name, orble to find^H^H^H^H^te

Could it be the VT102 that appears on bottom of the screen while running Minicom?

Any help is much appreciated!

Regards,
Zotigo

Cheers,
Zotigo

IEEE 802.ThanQ

 

[mrregan]

It appears you have a bunch of backspace characters in some string. Did you use your backspace key to "erase" an initialization string or something? If so, the terminal type was interpreting the key incorrectly.

 

[itsp1965]

Could be a couple of things;

- Your router is configured to log all system messages to the console
- With the above it is possible that your COM port setting cannot accomodate the speed by which the console messages appear on the console

I have seen similar issues when connecting to Linux servers to KVM switches