[Xastir] Good serial port comm program for linux

[Philip Webb]

Hi Dale,

I had all sorts of trouble getting a serial program to work in Mandriva.

I finished up with Tiny Serial - which while being very basic - did the 
job that I wanted and was easy to set up.

73

Philip
VK4HPW

Dale Seaburg wrote:
> OK guys,  I'm getting thoroughly frustrated with minicom.  It's not 
> minicom's fault, but the stupid security on the serial ports.  My lack 
> of linux experience is showing through.  I need to be able to talk to my 
> tnc until I get things ironed out and working like I want.  I don't want 
> to reboot into windows just to run Hyperterm (which works EVERY time) to 
> help configure the tnc.  I'd like to stay in linux.  I have used minicom 
> in years gone by, but I can't seem to find the right combo to get it to 
> talk to COM1 (tty0?).  If I don't run with sudo, I get security errors 
> accessing just about any serial port I try.
> 
> Help!
> 
> frustrated-73's - Dale.  KG5LT
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