how to use serial port like hyper terminal in windos?
 

Hi,

I am an electronic engineer, and I work on embedded uControlers with RS232 ports which can talk to the Hyperterminal or similar in windos through com1-4...

how do I do this in linux. I feel it probably is so basic that everyone knows it and hance documentation is not forthcomming. (have been wondering this for several years)

could any body help me with a magic command line, and how to set up baud etc, or a pointer to a good how to...

cheers

daceo

suse 9.1
slack 9.x 10.x
ubuntu 6.x
win 98 se 2000 XP

if it helps

check out minicom, pretty nice tool for the job. btw, i use TuTTY, a puTTY fork for this under windows, whops hyperterminal by a long way.

The tool is minicom, it's included with many distributions. As root,

minicom -s

This lets you setup system-wide defaults (like port selection and bit rate).

Then as a user just run minicom to connect to the port.

You would want to look at "minicom" which is a console-based serial terminal emulator which should be able to do anything Hyperterminal was doing.

If you want something with a GUI those are out there too, like CuteCom.

Most distros com with minicom, which I find a bit spartan, although functional. My weapon of choice, for greatest control and flexibility is C-kermit. That you even understand the utility of serial communcations automatically puts you in an enlightened category IMHO, so no need to feel shame.
--- rod.

I also prefer C-Kermit for serial port communication in Linux.

Thanks guys,

For some strange reason I thought I could type ttyS0 ore something like that in to a "terminal" and it would start working all by itself.... so it is kind of reassuring that i need a program to run. next task is to see if any of the single floppy distros have any of these as standard....

cheers

daceo

While the single boot floppy versions of Linux ("Serial Terminal Linux" was for just this purpose) that had minicom seem to have disappeared, you can still get Feather Linux - a bootable image for CD or USB thumb drive.

However, if you're able to boot a CD, you might as well just get a recent distribution's LiveCD with minicom.

If you want a GUI app ... look into cutecom

tool for serial communication
 

A really good tool (GUI) for serial communication (and TCP, UDP, CAN, SPI) is ScriptCommunicator (comes with a script interface and a good manual).
It is open source (GPLv3) and has pebuild executables (available on sourceforge).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scriptcommunicator/

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