[arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

[Leandro Costa]

You can use minicom -s to enter the configuration menu, from there you can
change your serial device.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Thomas Jost <schnouki at schnouki.net> wrote:

> 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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