On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > This is standard console over serial, for which minicom will not help you as > > there isn't a way (at least not that I know of) to make it act like a dumb > > terminal. > > it's doable. I never use anything but minicom for a serial console. > you just have to go through the configuration and turn off flow control, > then remove all the init strings that it would otherwise send when > connecting. There's a distro called SerialLinux that "takes a perfectly good laptop and turns it into a completely useless dumb terminal". It's just a kernel that boots into minicom. Defaults to TTYS0 9600-8-N-1. Works great for Cisco work, I assume it works well for other console work also. Don't most console ports run at 9600? Anyway, you can find it on freshmeat, fits on a floppy. -Brian