[Techtalk] minicom won't talk to powered on device

[Mike]

On Saturday 20 May 2006 7:37 am, Hamster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having terrible woes trying to use minicom to manage some switches
> and routers. I can't get a connection to a powered on device.
>
> I started minicom as root with the -s option, and have saved a config
> file with all the right comms settings - 9600N81 and /dev/ttyS0. I saved
> that as s0, and so now launch minicom (as normal user) using `minicom -o
> s0`.
>
> If I perform the following steps in this order, I get a perfectly
> working connection to the device:
> 1. start minicom
> 2. plug in the console cable into the device
> 3. power on the device
>
> However, if I want to use minicom to connect to something that is
> already powered on, it simply refuses to connect. The status bar down
> the bottom of the screen just says "offline" and no amount of pressing
> enter or anything at all will get me a working connection.
>
> It doesn't really need to be said that I can't keep power cycling a
> device just to get a console connection!!

Do you send a break to the device?

What response d you get from the device?  


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