A Problem I Fixed With Usb To Serial Converter

I am new to this whole Linux thing and fixed a problem that others may be interested in -

I am a Cisco network admin and my laptop has a usb port and no serial port and I needed to console onto routers and switches anyways after much searching I installed minicom and set it up from the link below so just in case someone has the same problem.

I am sure that lots of other options are available but this is what I did.


http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/01/...e-in-linux.html

I am new to this whole Linux thing and fixed a problem that others may be interested in -

I am a Cisco network admin and my laptop has a usb port and no serial port and I needed to console onto routers and switches anyways after much searching I installed minicom and set it up from the link below so just in case someone has the same problem.

I am sure that lots of other options are available but this is what I did.
http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/01/...e-in-linux.html
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Thanks for that!

BTW, You may find this interesting: /usr/share/doc/howto/en/html/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO

Hey jon1,

What keyboard character are you using after "dmesg"? I don't see any vertical line character on my keyboard. The closest thing I have is a capitol "i".

dmesg | grep tty

FWIW, I have another workaround for anyone who is interested in getting a serial to usb converter working in 10.2. Just install 10.1 first, get the converter working there and do an upgrade to 10.2.

I updated my kernel to 2.6.18.8-0.3, hoping that the usb to serial non-detection problem would be fixed, but as far as I could tell, the device was still not detected. FWIW, I'm using a converter that uses the pl-2303 chip.

Somebody needs to fix this problem.

peckinpah - that's a "pipe", which is most commonly found on top of the \ key. Hold shift and hit backslash - you'll get a pipe.