At Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:34:48 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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