

If at some point you cannot enter text any more, verify that you have turned off flow control (F and G should be set to No). Now we got the beagleboard shell! Congratulations!įirst command we wanna try is “help”: OMAP3 # help
MINICOM CONFIG SERIAL
If you still don’t get the beagleboard shell, try using other serial terminal program like GtkTerm. Now press A and change /dev/ttyUSB0 for /dev/ttyUSB1, save as dfl, and restart minicom. You’ll have to go back to the config (minicom -s) and get to this screen: +-+ For linux, minicom is a nice client with a text-based user interface. Minicom cung cp giao din d s dng, thn thin vi ngi dng, da trn vn bn, da trn ncurses v c th c s dng trn bt k h iu hnh GNU/Linux, POSIX hoc UNIX no, bao gm cc bn phn phi nh Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, openSUSE hoc Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

You should get the following screen: Welcome to minicom 2.2 Configure minicom for use over UART serial term.

Connecting to the Beagleboard with MinicomĬonnect the Flyswatter and the Beagleboard and connect the Beagleboard to your computer’s USB port, as described in the Flyswatter How To. Press Enter to leave this screen, select Save setup as dfl and finally select Exit from Minicom.

Now press A to change the serial device, and type /dev/ttyUSB0. Now in the previous screen, press F to set Hardware Flow Control to Off. You should get 115200 8N1, press keys I, L, V and W.
MINICOM CONFIG SOFTWARE
| G - Software F| C: 2400 N: Odd U: 7 | | Disable this before trying to use the serial port for other purposes. 1) Just like any cisco router or HP switch, etc, the XServe is configured to listen with a secure terminal on the serial port, for config purposes. | F - Hardware F| B: 1200 M: Even T: 6 | | Here are a few things to be aware of re: the serial port. You'll probably also find the demo files for runscript (1), and the examples of character conversion tables either there or in the subdirectories of /usr/doc/minicom. To find out what default directory minicom has compiled in, issue the command minicom -h. Now press E to change those settings: +-+ Minicom keeps it's configuration files in one directory, usually /var/lib/minicom, /usr/local/etc or /etc. Run minicom setup as root from the host computer: $ sudo minicom -s Certainly as a power user or administrator.
MINICOM CONFIG INSTALL
Open a terminal window and type: $ sudo apt-get install minicom Based on my experience with minicom, and the sole time it actually needs root, I would say that it is not necessary, as most of the options you can change as a normal user in windows. Will start minicom with the configuration stored into the file /etc/minicom/minirc.Minicom is available through the Ubuntu Advanced Packaging Tool (APT). (e.g.: minirc.alix) and can be easily recalled by invoking minicom followed by the name you gave the configuration The configuration file will be saved into the directory /etc/minicom as minirc. Figure 11.23: Configuring file transfer protocols Name specifies whether the program requires a filename as an argument U/D specifies whether a given row. If you are root and you select the option “save setup as.” then you will be able to save a named custom configuration Install minicom (Fedora comes with minicom, this step can be skipped). Interesting is the possibility to save named custom configurations. If you are root then the configuration will be saved into /etc/minicom/minirc.dfl, The default Serial port monitor that is installed with the configuration script is minicom. If you already have the file, please follow the instructions below to modify the configuration file, otherwise, copy the configuration. These files can be easily created by starting minicom in setup mode minicom -s or sudo minicom -sĪnd after having configured what you need, selecting the option “save setup as dfl”. Use minicom to access Bios of ROCK Pi X: We need to configure the minicom configuration file, such as: cd vim. When started without options then it looks for the default configuration files Minicom allows you to store and recall configuration files in a quite handy way.
