Once upon a time, Nicolas Kovacs <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> 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 ?
I'd guess the TERM is not set correctly. IIRC Minicom by default
emulates a traditional VT102 terminal, while the default Linux TERM
variable is usually "linux" (which is a superset of VT102). Try setting
TERM=vt102 first.
Alternately, if you have screen installed, it can also be used for
serial access... run "screen /dev/ttyS0 9600" (change the device and
speed as needed). Screen has its own superset of VT102, so you can set
TERM=screen, but it is also possibly close enough to the linux terminal
emulation to work directly (they're both ANSI supersets with similar
extensions).
--
Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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