Just want to point out that Greg's exit from minicom is even more elegant than mine. This should further point out, to all the new folks here, that there's often more than one way to do things. In part, that's why answering questions like "how do I" can become gnarly. Gregory Nowak writes: > From: Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> > > Well, first you will probably want to do "minicom -s" to configure > your serial port where the modem is at and so on. This menu should be > hopefully self-explanatory. > > When it says type ctrl-a z for help, you are at the terminal > screen. You should be able to type "at#cid1" at this point, and if all > is well, get ok back from your modem. If you don't get an ok, type > "at" followed by enter to make sure everything is configured as it > should be. If you still don't get an ok, then go back, make sure your > modem is noticed by linux and working properly, and that minicom is > configured correctly. > > To exit minicom, type control+a, followed by x, followed by enter. > Hth. > > Greg > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:10:41PM -0400, Chris wrote: > > Greg, I went into minicom, but from there couldn't figure out how to get to > > the point of typing in that string... all I got to was the screen that said > > to hit ctrl A then hit z to get help... That screen to me, wasn't very > > readable however... Dang, I finally had to switch to another console and > > log in to root, and type killall minicom. > > > > That was the only way I found to get out of it. > > > > > > Chris. > > > > > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
