From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 24 14:56:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (pogo.caustic.org [208.44.193.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85BA37B403 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:56:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.0/ignatz) with ESMTP id f6OLuZe61925; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:56:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:56:35 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Ken Seggerman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connecting FreeBSD box to Cisco Router In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 24 Jul 2001, Ken Seggerman wrote: > What application or utility do I use to open a terminal to the serial > port? although there's a ton of other answers to this, i tend to use "cu(1)". for just this reason. it's easier to use than tip (1). after attaching the cable to your serial port, just type: cu -l cuaaX where X is the number of the serial port (A == 0, B == 1.. etc). hope this helps. -- jan -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message