[vox-tech] minicom help

[Peter Jay Salzman]

henry, this might be a good application for strace --

strace -s99 -o LOG whatever

look at -ff if threads are being used.   this will tell you the return
status of any system calls that minicom is making.  perhaps there's a
problem opening or writing to device file?

you can probably do a cat LOG | grep -v map | less to get rid of all the
memory mapping cruft.

pete


begin Henry House <hajhouse@houseag.com> 
> I have two machines connected by serial crossover cable. I can write data to
> /dev/ttyS0 on the one machine (headless server) and receive on the other
> (terminal) using 'cat /dev/ttyS0' but I can't get minicom to work. Symptom:
> nothing at all appears on the receiver! As far as I can tell I did have the
> correct comm settings. If anyone has done this and would be willing to
> enlighten me, I would be very grateful.
> 
> In case you did not guess already, I plan to redirect grub to the serial port
> and run a getty on the headless server.
> 
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> Henry House
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