Serial Port Terminal Emulation problems in Ubuntu

[Lisa Kachold]

Eric Please!

On 8/2/09, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
> Lisa Kachold wrote:
>> On 8/2/09, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
>>> Lisa Kachold wrote:
>>>> On 7/31/09, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Quoting:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> sudo apt-get install pico<<
>>>>> If I'm reading this right, the editor in question resides on the box
>>>>> he's diddling with, NOT the Ubuntu box.  So unless the router he's
>>>>> configuring is running a Debian family OS (unlikely, right?) this
>>>>> won't work :)
>>>> His problem was stated as:
>>>>
>>>> --quote
>>>>
>>>> I am using Ubuntu at work, were connect to a Linux based Ether
>>>> switch/router both by serial port and by telnet.
>>>>
>>>> ---end quote
>>>>
>>>> There are a great number of debian linux switches (like IpCop):
>>>>
>>>> But hey, thanks for not stereotyping me; I love being corrected just
>>>> like one of the guys!
>>>>
>>> IPCop is based on LinuxFromScratch. Is that somehow related to debian?
>>
>> There's a debian install for IpCop (if you followed the link, you would
>> see it).
>> I always include references for questions like these (grin) after 25
>> years in this business.
>>
>
> Which link would that be?
>
> Being a standalone distro based on LFS, I don't understand how there
> could or would be a "debian install" for it. Will you explain what you
> mean by "debian install for IpCop"?
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'

Ask the source (IPCop.or in this case) [about IpCop debian] before
beleagering all these good people with this strange agenda?

http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?module=pnWikka&func=history&tag=IPCop2BuildingHowto

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