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2007-09-18T22:38:26Z

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Tim Bird at 22:38, 18 September 2007

2007-09-18T22:38:06Z

Tim Bird: Add information about use with target serial console.

2007-09-18T22:37:41Z

Add information about use with target serial console.

Prpplague at 02:02, 13 September 2007

2007-09-13T02:02:41Z

Prpplague at 02:02, 13 September 2007

2007-09-13T02:02:18Z

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Minicom is a menu driven communications program. It emulates ANSI and VT102 terminals. It has a dialing directory and auto zmodem download.

[[http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/ Minicom Project Page]]

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 the kernel console, on the target's serial port.
-See [serial console] for information on configuring the kernel for serial console support.
+See [[serial console]] for information on configuring the kernel for serial console support.
 == Tips ==

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 Minicom is a menu driven communications program. It emulates ANSI and VT102 terminals. It has a dialing directory and auto zmodem download.  It is included with almost all Linux distributions, so it should be readily available.
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 See [serial console] for information on configuring the kernel for serial console support.
-== tips ==
+== Tips ==
 === line wrapping ===
 By default, minicom will not wrap longs lines of text, which causes them to run off the edge of

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−	Minicom is a menu driven communications program. It emulates ANSI and VT102 terminals. It has a dialing directory and auto zmodem download.	+	Minicom is a menu driven communications program. It emulates ANSI and VT102 terminals. It has a dialing directory and auto zmodem download. It is included with almost all Linux distributions, so it should be readily available.

	[http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/ Minicom Project Page]		[http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/ Minicom Project Page]
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		+	A very common use of Minicom during embedded Linux development, is to communicate from the host machine to
		+	the kernel console, on the target's serial port.
		+
		+	See [serial console] for information on configuring the kernel for serial console support.
		+
		+	== tips ==
		+	=== line wrapping ===
		+	By default, minicom will not wrap longs lines of text, which causes them to run off the edge of
		+	your terminal screen. To avoid this, use the '-w' command line option. See 'man minicom' for
		+	more information.
		+
		+	=== location of configuration files ===
		+	The configuration files for minicom are located in /etc, with a name prefix of 'minirc.'.
		+	You can have several minicom configuration files, for different serial hardware on your
		+	machine. This is handy if you have different targets connected to your host and need to
		+	refer to different serial connections by name. Each config can have the port and settings
		+	for the different connections, and you can refer to them by name.
		+
		+	For example, if you have an arm development board and a mips development board, and one
		+	is connected to the first serial port (UART) of the host, and the other is connected to
		+	the host via a USB/serial converter, then you can have different minicom config files
		+	to use them. For example, you can have /etc/minirc.arm which has the settings for the
		+	ARM serial connection, and /etc/minirc.mips which has the settings for the serial connection
		+	to the mips board. To access these, you would use 'minicom arm' or 'minicom mips' at the
		+	command line, respectively.
		+
		+	=== turning off modem initialization strings ===
		+	Besides serial port settings (the most common being 115200,N,8,1), it is often necessary
		+	to turn off the modem initialization strings for minicom. By default, minicom is intended
		+	to create a serial connection over a modem. But when using minicom with a kernel serial console,
		+	if modem initialization strings are used, this may confuse the kernel console initialization
		+	routines. (Which can result in gibberish being output on the serial line). To disable
		+	the modem initialization strings, set the variables 'minit', 'mreset', and 'mhangup' to be emtpy.
		+	You can do this with the following lines in a minicom config file:
		+	pu minit
		+	pu mreset
		+	pu mhangup

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	Minicom is a menu driven communications program. It emulates ANSI and VT102 terminals. It has a dialing directory and auto zmodem download.		Minicom is a menu driven communications program. It emulates ANSI and VT102 terminals. It has a dialing directory and auto zmodem download.

−	[[http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/ Minicom Project Page]]	+	[http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/ Minicom Project Page]