[plug] Minicom

[William Kenworthy]

ls -al /dev/modem - does it exist and what does it point to?

I use /dev/ttyS0 (most common, first comm port) - or are you using a usb
serial cable? - they work well by the way, a necessity since
manufacturers stopped putting serial ports on laptops :(

You may need to be in the relevant group to access the serial devices as
well as a user.

BillK



On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 10:40 +0800, Jon L Miller wrote:
> I’m trying to get minicom to work on a SLES v11 and whenever I run it
> it just states it cannot find /dev/modem I went through the setup
> (minicom –s) to setup everything, but it still is not working.  Anyone
> have any ideas on getting this to work.  I use it to configure cisco
> routers via the telnet to the rollover cable to com1.
> 
> Should I be using /dev/modem or /dev/ttyS1 (or something like that)?
> 
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