[Wolves] Telnet to serail device

[Simon Burke]

On 5/29/05, Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Simon Burke wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A bit of a stupid question, but it as i have never had to do it before.
> >
> > I  may be getting a works laptop, to take on site with me and they are
> > letting my put linux onto to it. Great i thought, but i've never had
> > to try to start a telnet session with a serial device before.
> >
> > Is it as simple as 'telnet /dev/ttyS1'? or am i completely wrong?
> >
> > i havnt tried it quite yet but im going to at some point
> >
> 
> Nope, that won't work as telnet is for TCP/IP connections, not serial.
> 
> Take a look at minicom, a quite sophisticated program that provides the
> functionality of the old Telix program from dial-up BBS days.
> 
> HTH
> 
Thanks for that i will have a look when i get chance. 
Cherrs much appreciated.
-- 
Theres no place like ::1

Thanks,
SimonB

http://www.geek-web.co.uk