MINICOM question

[Marvin_G]

hye guys,i wanted to set baudrate,data bit,partity bit, start bit, and stop bit in MINICOM, how can i do that? please lend me your idea guys. thanks

[Mad Penguin]

minicom -s
=> Serial Port Setup
=> E
<baud rate> <data bits><parity><stop bit>
(eg; 9600 8N1)
<return>
=> Save setup as dfl
=> Exit
.. this will deposit you into a terminal session ..

I guess I'm showing my age now ... 

[Marvin_G]

tq so much..if i'm not using minicom, how can i set all these in terminal?

[Mad Penguin]

Erm, depends on what you mean by 'terminal' ?!

Do you mean you have an old-style serial console and you're trying to log that on to a serial line ??

If so, check out /etc/init for files tty?.conf, which look something like this;

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# tty1 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on tty1 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.

start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345] and (
            not-container or
            container CONTAINER=lxc or
            container CONTAINER=lxc-libvirt)

stop on runlevel [!2345]

respawn 
exec /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1

If you want to add a serial line, create a file called ttyS0 (for example, serial console 0) and change the last line as appropriate. You can get more detail re; stop bits / parity etc from "man getty".

To activate the file do;

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initctl reload ttyS0

[Marvin_G]

i'm not quite familiar with getty but it seems interesting, but how do i configure the data bits value, parity bits, start/stop bits, and baudrate using it? and how to send command to the serial port also?

[Mad Penguin]

Try "man getty" for details (!)