Serial Port Terminal Emulation problems in Ubuntu

[Eric Shubert]

Lisa Kachold wrote:
> 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?

I did, thank you very much. I was unable to find anything there about a 
"debian install".

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

This page page references debian, but it's talking about a build 
environment, which has nothing to do with an install or IPCop itself. In 
addition, it's talking about version 2, which is a long way from general 
release yet.

My "agenda" (if you need to call it that) is simply to understand how 
IPCop and debian might be related, which was triggered by your statement:

<quote>
There are a great number of debian linux switches (like IpCop):
</quote>

I think I understand now.
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'