Minicom doesn't work

Question

I installed minicom and configured it with a usb to serial adapter. When I run minicom with sudo minicom I see only this message : Welcome to minicom 2.7

OPTIONS: I18n Compiled on Jan 1 2014, 17:13:19. Port /dev/ttyUSB0, 10:07:54

Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys

I should see a Cisco ios. What I can do ?

Solution 1

May be you can try to use picocom like this:

sudo picocom -b 115200 -r -l /dev/ttyUSB0

with no port reset (-r) and no port locking (-l). Also special keys you can see in the man picocom

Solution 2

It seems you cannot input anything on minicom, if that is the case then go in Minicom configuration by:

minicom -o -s

and select the serial port setup option, then turn off the Hardware flow control. I also had software flow control to OFF. It works for me.

Comments

[Daniele Pugliese]

ook I setup the port as ttyUSB0. About speed . What I can do ? you have any values that I can use ?

[Daniele Pugliese]

I tried with picocom but i see this and nothing more : daniele@daniele-XPS-13-9343:~$ sudo picocom -b 115200 -r -l /dev/ttyUSB0 picocom v1.7 port is : /dev/ttyUSB0 flowcontrol : none baudrate is : 115200 parity is : none databits are : 8 escape is : C-a local echo is : no noinit is : no noreset is : yes nolock is : yes send_cmd is : sz -vv receive_cmd is : rz -vv imap is : omap is : emap is : crcrlf,delbs, Terminal ready

[Barafu Albino]

Speed must exactly match the one that is set on the receiving end. Otherwise you will see only eldritch runes or nothing at all.

[user1584253]

Same issue with me