Picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program that is great for accessing a serial port based Linux console; which is typical done when developing an embedded Linux based product.Installing picocomOn Ubunt, you can simplysudo apt-get install picocomRunning picocomYou need to know the name of the serial port. Also, you should have read/write permissions to the serial port. Typical serial port names are /dev/ttyS0 for PCs with a built-in serial port and /dev/ttyUSB0 if you are using a USB to serial dongle.picocom is wonderful in that you can specify all the serial port setting as parameters on the command line. For 115,200 baud (-b 115200), 8 bits (default setting), no parity (default setting), no flow control (default setting), and with no port reset (-r) and no port locking (-l), use:picocom -b 115200 -r -l /dev/ttyUSB0To exit picocom, use CNTL-A followed by CNTL-X.
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How do I check and configure serial ports under Linux for various purposes such as modem, connecting null modems or connect a dumb terminal?
Linux offers various tools. Linux uses ttySx for a serial port device name. For example, COM1 (DOS/Windows name) is ttyS0, COM2 is ttyS1 and so on.
Linux offers various tools. Linux uses ttySx for a serial port device name. For example, COM1 (DOS/Windows name) is ttyS0, COM2 is ttyS1 and so on.
Task: Display Detected System’s Serial Support
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Simple run dmesg command
Output:
$ dmesg | grep tty
Output:
setserial command
setserial is a program designed to set and/or report the configuration information associated with a serial port. This information includes what I/O port and IRQ a particular serial port is using, and whether or not the break key should be interpreted as the Secure Attention Key, and so on. Just type the following command:
Output:
$ setserial -g /dev/ttyS[0123]
Output:
setserial with -g option help to find out what physical serial ports your Linux box has.
Linux serial console programs
Once serial ports identified you can configure Linux box using various utilities:
- minicom– The best friendly serial communication program for controlling modems and connecting to dump devices
- wvidial or other GUI dial up networking program – a PPP dialer with built-in intelligence.
- getty / agetty – agetty opens a tty port, prompts for a login name and invokes the /bin/login command.
- grub / lilo configuration – To configure serial port as the system console
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