At Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:34:48 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@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>.