"minicom" probably does what you want. Install the minicom RPM (comes with RedHat). Read about in /usr/share/doc/minicom-2.00.0/doc. This also installs xminicom, which just runs minicom within an xterm.
Hope this helps, -Bob Arendt
Jake McHenry wrote:
shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Jake McHenry wrote:
Telnetting to any of the /dev/ttyS* didn't work.
Anyone have any other ideas?
What is the uucp package?
Telnet won't work through a serial port. If you do a man telnet ,
the
port it refers to is a TCP/IP port. cu will connect through the serial port, and it will be like you are in a console window without X running.
The uucp package is on the RedHat disk #3 and does not get installed by default. To see if it's installed on your machine, try:
rpm -qa |grep uucp
If it does not show up, install it from the 3rd shrike disk, and you
will have cu loaded.
Are you trying to connect to the linux box from another linux
machine,
or from a Windows box? You mentioned a phone system. Can you give us more details on exactly what you are trying to do? Do you have to
use
telnet?
I currently access my phone switch from my windows server, which will be going to linux soon, so I moved the serial cable to the linux box. On the windows box, I used secureCRT, which allowed me to access the serial ports. Now I need a way to do it on linux.
What is the uucp package? What else does it install? I don't currently have it installed.
This is the first time I've tried to access a com port from linux, I just mentioned that I tried telnet, and it didn't work.
Jake McHenry Nittany Travel MIS Coordinator http://www.nittanytravel.com
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