[vox-tech] minicom help

[Micah Cowan]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:24:22PM -0800, Henry House wrote:
> 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.

Have you tried lower baudrates?

Micah