From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 13:44:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corten2.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9682837B406; Mon, 13 May 2002 13:43:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8]) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 177Mfk-0004zc-00; Mon, 13 May 2002 13:43:56 -0700 Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 13:39:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: bill@corten8 To: Mike Flanagan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: Re: using Minicom to get console on another BSD box In-Reply-To: <02d301c1fabb$6aab15b0$ecfea8c0@monkey> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux i86pc) 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 At Mon, 13 May 2002 it looks like Mike Flanagan composed: > Hello, > > Is there a way to use minicom to attach from the com port on one machine to the > com port on another machine to get console access ? I have two db9 null connectors > plugged into the com port of the two machines connected with rj45. > Yep, you should determine if you going to use /dev/cuaa0 (COM1) or /dev/cuaa1 (COM2) first, I happen to use the latter cuz I've got my Palm sync connected to the first one. I personally then created a symlink called /dev/modem, here is my output from my FreeBSD-4.5 box: [root@yoga ~]-> ls -al /dev |grep cuaa crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 128 May 2 06:19 cuaa0 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 129 May 2 06:19 cuaa1 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 130 May 2 06:19 cuaa2 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 131 May 2 06:19 cuaa3 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 May 3 08:31 modem -> /dev/cuaa1 Anyway the command for the 2nd com port was: ln -s /dev/cuaa1 /dev/modem Then I fired up minicom as root: minicom -s The I confirmed and set the /dev/modem link. The I changed the baud rate to 9600. Then since I use it to connect to my FreeBSD to Sparc box at home I saved the file as "sun". So to connect to my Sparc box I type: minicom sun -- |<--------------------------------72---------------------------------->| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message