Bill Moseley wrote:
I've got an Access Point that has a serial port. The AP runs Linux (it's an Netgear WG302). I can't connect to it from Linux using minicom.
After messing with it for an hour I brought out an old Win95 machine
with hyperterm and was able to connect no problem. So, AP and cable are working fine.
I suspect it's minicom that's causing me problems. Likely flow control. Minicom always reports "OFFLINE".
I have no idea if this will help...
When I set up a null modem connection using minicom, I had to set the modem initialization string and reset string to empty values so that minicom wouldn't send data that would scramble the remote system before I even got started. There are example scripts for this in /usr/share/doc/minicom/examples, which I incorporated into my own startup file.
Naturally, the user starting minicom has access to the serial port...
For what it's worth, minicom always shows that I am offline on that connection, even as I am executing commands across the line.
I hope you figure out the difficulty, Nate
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