> On 5/6/2010 1:55 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> "Stuck"... I'm working with a remote instance through terminal >>> services into a VM running on Microsoft Hyper-V... The mouse didn't >>> work at all, but yum has that all fixed up now. <snip> >> mark wrote: <snip> >> Could be worse - I'm trying to get minicom to talk to an HP ProCurve >> switch, and it just won't talk. > > Try this > > Bits per second: 115200 (or try 9600) > Data bits: 8 > Parity: None > Submit > Stop bits: 1 > Flow control: None Thanks - yeah, I saw that in the manual, and online, saw the 9600, did that, no joy at all. Just sits there at a blank screen. Btw, about flow control: h/w?s/w? Those are my two options in minicom. Meanwhile, on the switch (ssh'ing in, but I need to get the serial port working so I can get a newer version of the firmware there (what's there is *ancient*), show console reports flow control as xon/xoff.... mark