[CentOS] Terminal emulation and serial ports

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Tue Aug 25 13:50:02 UTC 2009


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>.

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