Console Client? Putty's not up to scratch..

[Christopher J Combrink]

Don't get me wrong, I have heard great things about Minicom. But I
couldn't get it to work with my little Mecer USB to RS-232. 

Tell me more about this ckermit.

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 21:25 +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:31:58AM +0200, Christopher J Combrink wrote:
> > (I've tried Minicom with no success as I'm using a USB to Serial
> > converter. 
> > 
> > I have run a tail and the 'serial' is set to ttyUSB0 as it should be -
> > still no magic).
> > 
> > Any help would be much appreciated =]
> 
> Minicom has served me well for many years. It will, however, fail to
> talk to some USB converters. I had trouble with a:
> 
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
> 
> If putty still doesn't scrub up, it would be handy to try another USB to
> Serial converter.
> 
> Alternatively, there's ckermit. You have to build it from source, but
> that takes only a moment. Yodel if it's of interest.
> 
> Erik
> 
> -- 
> If at first you don't succeed, try again.
> Then Quit. No use being a damn fool about it.              - W.C. Fields
> 
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