From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 13:17:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E771837B400 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.rucus.ru.ac.za (server.rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.115.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B3DA43E42 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:17:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drs@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 98192 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2002 20:17:26 -0000 Received: from bashir.dsl.ru.ac.za (146.231.113.19) by server.rucus.ru.ac.za with SMTP; 30 Jul 2002 20:17:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 5286 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Jul 2002 20:17:26 -0000 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:17:26 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= To: Chris Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to use my FreeBSD box as a terminal Message-ID: <20020730201726.GA5166@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020730143949.02607ab8@mail.ooc2000.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020730143949.02607ab8@mail.ooc2000.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue 2002-07-30 (14:40), Chris wrote: > Hi all, my router has a console port that I can connect to with a computer > that has a serial port. There are only instructions for Windows, and my > development laptop here doesn't have a serial port. Plus I'd like to > connect using a FreeBSD box anyway. Trouble is, I know nothing about > terminals or that sort of thing. I suspect it's an easy question -- fire up > a terminal, telling it to use my serial port and 9600,0,1, but I don't know > how to do that! I've used cu and minicom to do that. cu is included in FreeBSD, and can be used like so: $ cu -s 9600 -l /dev/cuaa0 Connected. User Access Verification Username: cuaa0 is COM1; replace as appropriate. Type ~. to disconnect. minicom is a full-featured serial comms package which reminds of Telix. You'll find it in the comms section of the ports collection. And I'm sure there are plenty of other alternatives, too. -- David Siebörger drs@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message