Serial Port Terminal Emulation problems in Ubuntu

[Michael Butash]

There is a version of putty for linux as well (apt-get install putty)
that might prove a bit more friendly.  As far as I know it's a mirror of
the win32 version.  I just dislike putty on any platform, but spend
quite a bit of time consoled into network gear, and minicom has
typically most always worked for me.

I've gone so far as to install SecureCRT under wine for a versatile
terminal app for logging features and such.  It installed and worked
mostly perfectly so long as you map your com ports to the TTY's.  Wine
and compiz would sometimes not play nice causing some visual artifacting
under load, but typically disabling compiz temporarily would help if I
*really* needed to use securecrt while it was flaking out.

-mb


On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 17:18 -0700, Mike Bushroe 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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