Serial Port Terminal Emulation problems in Ubuntu

[Lisa Kachold]

Solutions:

0) Use nano's ESC ESC o function:

http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.1/nano.html#Special-Functions

1) Alternate editor:

# sudo apt-get install pico

Use pico and Control X (save and exit).
Use pico and ESC ESC o

2) Set up a serial console:
http://www.howtoforge.com/setting_up_a_serial_console

3) Change your telnet terminal emulation from xterm or set a display variable.

Reference: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html





On 7/31/09, Mike Bushroe <mbushroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using Ubuntu at work, were connect to a Linux based Ether
> switch/router both by serial port and by telnet. When I use the
> default terminal emulation program in Ubuntu, I am able to run nano
> (the only editor on the switch), but I can not save the results
> because the program traps ^O to use for configuration changes. Is
> there an escape sequence that would allow me to send control
> characters?
>
>   I tried using minicom, but then when I run nano on the switch, all
> the text ends up in one line. Minicom is supposedly emulating a vt102.
> Is there a command I can issue to the switch to get it to display
> properly under minicom? I tried adding line feeds inside minicom, but
> it not only didn;t work, it added an extra line between each line in
> the text.
>
>   I also tried running nano with in a telnet session, but the switch
> complained that it could not start xterm. Is there a display setting
> to bypass trying to use X? I think this system is so stripped down to
> fit in a 64Meg flash drive that it does not have X11.
>
> Finally, is there a better terminal emulation program to run on Ubuntu
> that won't have the ^O problem? I like TerraTerm under Windows, but
> even after Googling for a Linux terminal emulation program, I found
> only links to tool kits to make you own, not existing programs.
>
> TIA
>
> Mike
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