[CentOS] Minicom and Ncurses

Fri Jun 12 15:48:00 UTC 2020
isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com>

Nicolas Kovacs writes:
> 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 ?

What about nmcli?

Might be a long shot - try export LANG=C.