[arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

[Thomas Jost]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:39:06 -0400, Carlos Mennens <carloswill at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I have a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter. Now I am trying to be able to
> connect to a Cisco switch via console serial cable using the Minicom
> utility. My problem is I don't know how to tell Minicom that my serial
> device is connected to /dev/ttyUSB0 or maybe it already knows & I just
> don't know how to use it...

Hello,

I've never used minicom, but the man page has something about setting
the serial device:

  CONFIGURATION
         By pressing C-A O you will be thrown into the setup menu.
         [...]
         Serial port setup
           A - Serial device
                /dev/tty1 or /dev/ttyS1 for most people.

Otherwise, you can just use GNU screen ("screen /dev/ttyUSB0", or
gtkterm. I've used both of them with a USB to serial adapter and I could
connect to Cisco switches without any problem.

Regards,

-- 
Thomas/Schnouki
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