Minicom + Procurve switch

[Grzegorz Witkowski]

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 16:16 -0400, cliff here wrote:
> Yea it's set to 9600, like i said I"m duplicating the same settings I used
> in hyperterm that worked fine.
> 
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Grzegorz Witkowski <geslinux at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 15:18 -0400, cliff here wrote:
> > > Good afternoon list compatriots;
> > >
> > > Having a weird issue using minicom to connect a  2400 series Procurve
> > > switch.  I am using 8N1 and I start by leaving minicom listening and then
> > > reboot the switch.
> > >
> > > Switch comes up and I see it's ROM decompress and post,  then asks me to
> > hit
> > > enter twice to confirm speed test. However minicom doesn't seem to be
> > > responding to any keystrokes.  I believe the terminal emulation is set to
> > > VT102.
> > >
> > > The other item that seems odd is that even though I can see output from
> > the
> > > switch minicom still says 'offline'
> > >
> > > I know my settings are correct since I've used hyperterm to get it
> > working
> > > before, I'm assuming I just am not understanding a setting or behavior of
> > > minicom.
> > >
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> > Hi,
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> > You did not say anything about boud rate and flow control.
> > They are very important. Typically you set flow control to none when
> > connecting to switches. Check documentation of your switch for baud
> > rate. Usually it's 9600, but some switches may have 115200 default.
> > If those are incorrect, you may see connection problems.
> >
> > Hope this will help.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ges
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Were you using the same machine with hyperterm?
Use dmesg and setserial to check the if your serial is initialized,
enabled and set up properly. There is no magic really with minicom if
your hardware is working and setup properly.
Vivek has nice simple tutorial, you probably know that one already.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/connect-soekris-single-board-computer-using-minicom.html 
Run minicom with -s and select Filenames and paths, then F - Logging
options and make sure you can see minicom.log and B,C=yes.
Then save a dfl and exit once still connected to the switch.
You should see:

Welcome to minicom
2.5                                                    
OPTIONS:
I18n                                                                
Compiled on Feb 24 2011,
11:25:53.                                           
Port /dev/ttyS0                                                                                                                                        
Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys 

Now press Ctrl-A L to capture the session to the file and then press
Ctrl-A F to send a break. See if you will be able to connect. If not, in
you ~ should be a minicom capture log, try to see if there is anything
in it.

Regards,
Ges