On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:39:06 -0400, Carlos Mennens <carloswill@gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I have a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter. Now I am trying to be able to
> connect to a Cisco switch via console serial cable using the Minicom
> utility. My problem is I don't know how to tell Minicom that my serial
> device is connected to /dev/ttyUSB0 or maybe it already knows & I just
> don't know how to use it...

Hello,

I've never used minicom, but the man page has something about setting
the serial device:

CONFIGURATION
By pressing C-A O you will be thrown into the setup menu.
[...]
Serial port setup
A - Serial device
/dev/tty1 or /dev/ttyS1 for most people.

Otherwise, you can just use GNU screen ("screen /dev/ttyUSB0", or
gtkterm. I've used both of them with a USB to serial adapter and I could
connect to Cisco switches without any problem.

Regards,

--
Thomas/Schnouki

You can use minicom -s to enter the configuration menu, from there you can
change your serial device.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Thomas Jost <schnouki@schnouki.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:39:06 -0400, Carlos Mennens <carloswill@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > I have a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter. Now I am trying to be able to
> > connect to a Cisco switch via console serial cable using the Minicom
> > utility. My problem is I don't know how to tell Minicom that my serial
> > device is connected to /dev/ttyUSB0 or maybe it already knows & I just
> > don't know how to use it...
>
> Hello,
>
> I've never used minicom, but the man page has something about setting
> the serial device:
>
> CONFIGURATION
> By pressing C-A O you will be thrown into the setup menu.
> [...]
> Serial port setup
> A - Serial device
> /dev/tty1 or /dev/ttyS1 for most people.
>
> Otherwise, you can just use GNU screen ("screen /dev/ttyUSB0", or
> gtkterm. I've used both of them with a USB to serial adapter and I could
> connect to Cisco switches without any problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Thomas/Schnouki
>



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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:17:15PM -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Jost <schnouki@schnouki.net> wrote:
> > Otherwise, you can just use GNU screen ("screen /dev/ttyUSB0", or
> > gtkterm. I've used both of them with a USB to serial adapter and I could
> > connect to Cisco switches without any problem.
>
> I just installed gtkterm and it worked perfect. My only problem is I
> can't copy / paste from the program. Is there a way I can copy text to
> my clipboard and paste them in a test editor? This is super annoying
> when I am trying to take notes on things I am doing...

Hilighting the text you want to copy and then 'mousebutton 3' where you want to
paste it too (the text editor) works for me.

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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:39, Carlos Mennens <carloswill@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can tell my Arch system that I have a USB to
> serial adapter connected to my machine?

If you don't need any of the modem features provided in minicom, I
would recommend trying picocom from AUR [0]. It provides a very
simple interface to a serial console:
$ picocom -b 9600 /dev/ttyUSB0

[0] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8088

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Jost <schnouki@schnouki.net> wrote:
> Otherwise, you can just use GNU screen ("screen /dev/ttyUSB0", or
> gtkterm. I've used both of them with a USB to serial adapter and I could
> connect to Cisco switches without any problem.

I just installed gtkterm and it worked perfect. My only problem is I
can't copy / paste from the program. Is there a way I can copy text to
my clipboard and paste them in a test editor? This is super annoying
when I am trying to take notes on things I am doing...

On 03/31/2010 08:17 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote:

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Jost<schnouki@schnouki.net> wrote:


Otherwise, you can just use GNU screen ("screen /dev/ttyUSB0", or
gtkterm. I've used both of them with a USB to serial adapter and I could
connect to Cisco switches without any problem.


I just installed gtkterm and it worked perfect. My only problem is I
can't copy / paste from the program. Is there a way I can copy text to
my clipboard and paste them in a test editor? This is super annoying
when I am trying to take notes on things I am doing...




Also take a look at Cutecom in AUR.
Works great for me.

Manne

My experience has been that minicom is the best emulator for interfacing
with serial devices. I have tried as many as I could get my hands on,
too, FWIW ($DAYJOB = noc monkey). IME, If you ever have a large config
you need to drop on a device (or even not-so-large) most others fail in
various ways. 5 AM at the collo with a dead core router is a lousy time
to find out that your *com of choice requires dropping 20 lines at a
time or it starts barfing, and you have a 2000 line config that needs
dropping. JME - others may disagree.



On 03/31/2010 12:17 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote:

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Jost<schnouki@schnouki.net> wrote:


Otherwise, you can just use GNU screen ("screen /dev/ttyUSB0", or
gtkterm. I've used both of them with a USB to serial adapter and I could
connect to Cisco switches without any problem.


I just installed gtkterm and it worked perfect. My only problem is I
can't copy / paste from the program. Is there a way I can copy text to
my clipboard and paste them in a test editor? This is super annoying
when I am trying to take notes on things I am doing...

>>>>> "Snarkout" == Snarkout <snarkout@linuxfortherestofus.com> writes:

Snarkout> My experience has been that minicom is the best emulator for
Snarkout> interfacing with serial devices. I have tried as many as I
Snarkout> could get my hands on, too, FWIW ($DAYJOB = noc monkey). IME,
Snarkout> If you ever have a large config you need to drop on a device
Snarkout> (or even not-so-large) most others fail in various ways. 5 AM
Snarkout> at the collo with a dead core router is a lousy time to find
Snarkout> out that your *com of choice requires dropping 20 lines at a
Snarkout> time or it starts barfing, and you have a 2000 line config
Snarkout> that needs dropping. JME - others may disagree.

I do (disagree).

Nothing beats "ckermit".

Sam
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