Hi,
Long story short I'm trying to help someone access the computer on a piece of construction equipment and all that it has is an old school nine pin serial port.
My laptop has Linux Mint 19.3 on it and I am planning on ordering one of these (which says that it is Linux compatible): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017CZ3FZ2
So my question is... years ago (1990's) I used to use Telemate under MS-DOS 4.1 - 6.22 to connect to a modem with but I was wondering what is a good terminal program that will let me do this these days?
Serial port / terminal software question...
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Re: Serial port / terminal software question...
minicom would do quite well
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sudo apt-get install minicom
Mint 21.3 Cinnamon - Intel NUC11
Re: Serial port / terminal software question...
Alternative to minicom is cutecom
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sudo apt install cutecom
Re: Serial port / terminal software question...
When -or rather before- working with the serial port, remember that the user has to be a member of the group called "dialout".
If not....NO JOY !
Did take me a while to figure out when connecting an old Garmin Geko GPS.
If not....NO JOY !
Did take me a while to figure out when connecting an old Garmin Geko GPS.
Linux is like my late labrador lady-dog: loyal and loving if you treat her lady-like, disbehaving princess if you don't.