I have a usb to serial convertor, null modem cable, and TSDOS on the Model 100 side. Very strangely, though, I cannot do it with Liniux Mint 17.3, and have to roll it back to 17.0 to make it work. Go figure.
On Sun, 6 Jun 2021 at 23:38, Keolai Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Has anyone had any luck with connecting their PC to their model 100 > through the serial port on any "modern" Linux distros? I've tried using > Minicom on a computer running Pop!_OS and another one running Arch and I > cannot seem to get the two computers to talk to each other. The screen > on my model 100 dims, so I know that it knows that it's connected to > something, but I can never get any text to transfer. > > I've tried to use Tback as well, but it always drops the connection > because it has "read 0 bytes". I've also tried to use the "Teeny-Linux" > program but doesn't connect to the right port. I remember trying other > things in the past (I can't remember what) but they didn't work because > certain components of Linux that the programs used were switched out for > more modern components. > > I'll probably just try to use a Windows XP virtual machine, but does > anyone know of any more "modern" file transfer solutions or have any > tips? Thanks. > >
