I have to reinit a firewall that can only be done from its console port, and I do not have an XP system with Hyperterminal on it. So I went through the archive and learned that minicom could do the job for me. I installed it and went to configure it (minicom -s). I can set the speeds, but the challenge is selecting the serial device. I have a Serial-to-USB dongle, and when I connect it, the gnome hardware browser is showing a FIDI usb serial converter that was not there before connecting the dongle. But what /dev/thingee do I put into the minicom configuration?
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz<rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:> I have to reinit a firewall that can only be done from its console port, > and I do not have an XP system with Hyperterminal on it. > > So I went through the archive and learned that minicom could do the job > for me. ?I installed it and went to configure it (minicom -s). ?I can > set the speeds, but the challenge is selecting the serial device. ?I > have a Serial-to-USB dongle, and when I connect it, the gnome hardware > browser is showing a FIDI usb serial converter that was not there before > connecting the dongle. ?But what /dev/thingee do I put into the minicom > configuration?Check dmesg, but for me it's usually /dev/ttyUSB0 when I use a USB-to-serial adapter. HTH, -- -Bob
At Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:34:48 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:> > I have to reinit a firewall that can only be done from its console port, > and I do not have an XP system with Hyperterminal on it. > > So I went through the archive and learned that minicom could do the job > for me. I installed it and went to configure it (minicom -s). I can > set the speeds, but the challenge is selecting the serial device. I > have a Serial-to-USB dongle, and when I connect it, the gnome hardware > browser is showing a FIDI usb serial converter that was not there before > connecting the dongle. But what /dev/thingee do I put into the minicom > configuration?You'll have to look in /var/log/messages (or run dmesg) to see what HAL / the USB Hotplug deamons mapped it to (at least that is what I would do). I know that a USB printer shows up as /dev/usb/lp<mumble>. -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
Bob Beers wrote:> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz<rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > >> I have to reinit a firewall that can only be done from its console port, >> and I do not have an XP system with Hyperterminal on it. >> >> So I went through the archive and learned that minicom could do the job >> for me. I installed it and went to configure it (minicom -s). I can >> set the speeds, but the challenge is selecting the serial device. I >> have a Serial-to-USB dongle, and when I connect it, the gnome hardware >> browser is showing a FIDI usb serial converter that was not there before >> connecting the dongle. But what /dev/thingee do I put into the minicom >> configuration? >> > > Check dmesg, but for me it's usually /dev/ttyUSB0 when I use a > USB-to-serial adapter.Of course first I tried dmesg, and had to go through lots of output until the last lines said it is indeed ttyUSB0. Then I tried 'ls /dev/tty*' and there it was too. So I am on my way (I hope)... thanks