Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:36:36 -0600 From: Jay Moore <jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Florian Hengstberger <e0025265@student.tuwien.ac.at> Subject: Re: Serial communication, terminal Message-ID: <200501131936.36744.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ia761p.mq4wjv@webmail.tuwien.ac.at> References: <ia761p.mq4wjv@webmail.tuwien.ac.at>
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On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:22 am, Florian Hengstberger wrote: > Hi! > > I have a microcontroller with an uart interface. > I want to communicate with my computer through the serial port > of my FreeBSD box. > Is it somehow possible to connect the serial io to a xterm? > Case it is not: I don't want to write a program myself - > is there an existing program handling the io? open a terminal window & type in "minicom -s" set the parameters as required to match your target quit/exit minicom now type in "minicom" & start your target you may also need to chmod or chown your serial tty device to access the serial port as a "regular" user. HTH, Jay PS - thought I'd try this before sending the mail, but appears my 5.2.1 BSD doesn't have minicom :( So - you may need to install it from the ports collection.
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