[CentOS] Minicom and Ncurses

Fri Jun 12 16:00:37 UTC 2020
Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 11:30 AM Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have to do some maintenance on a CentOS 7 proxy installed on a
> routerboard
> without a video card. The only way to access this machine directly is via
> Minicom and serial port.
>
> I'm using NetworkManager TUI (nmtui) to configure network interfaces, but
> Ncurses rendering in Minicom works in the sense that chickens fly and
> horses
> swim. What you get is a forest of question marks with a few barely
> recognizable
> options lost in between.
>
> Is there some magical trick to render Ncurses interfaces correctly in
> Minicom ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
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Maybe "export TERM=vt100" ?




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