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I just grabbed it and wanted to see if I could make it work for either OS X or my XP VM. By the way, just went to the link you posted to the OS X Hax site, followed another link from there (newest post at bottom) to the current drivers for IOGear/ATEN/Prolific devices, and installed them. Minicom is a simple text-based modem control and terminal emulation program somewhat similar to MSDOS Telix. Minicom includes a dialing directory, full ANSI and VT100 emulation, an (external) scripting language, and other features.

Click here to return to the 'Use minicom as a serial-interface terminal application' hint

Won't build in 10.2.8 - which is too bad because the fink version has trouble with my eMac's modem. Always takes a couple tries before it can talk to the modem. Then it works flawlessly.
Anybody else seen this behaviour? I've been living with it for a year or so now.

I have always found Kermit to be a reliable way to talk to serial interfaces. I installed from darwinports, but I think fink has it too.

Greg Shenaut

In the past minicom haws had numerous security vulnerabilities, so if past experience is any indication I would continue to use Kermit. Besides kermit has a ton of very powerful features. (Like you can use kermit between a HP48 calculator.)

I'm curious: what are serial interfaces? What's an example or two of the things you are talking about?
I'm curious, but I imagine this might be useful if it's what I think it is. A coworker manages a digital closed-circuit television system that has something to do with RS-232, I hear.
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osxpounder

A somewhat windows-centric introduction is found here.

Greg Shenaut

Os X 10.11.4

The open source 'screen' command is pre-installed in the Mac OS X.
Solaris users will recall the 'tip' command. I use 'screen' and a
USB-serial adapter when I need quick-and-dirty terminal emulation
via a serial port.
screen man page:
screen -r [[pid.]tty[.host]]
screen -r sessionowner/[[pid.]tty[.host]]
DESCRIPTION
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a
physical terminal between several processes (typically
interactive shells). Each virtual terminal provides the
functions of a DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, sev-
eral control functions from the ISO 6492 (ECMA 48, ANSI
Audacity for mac catalina. X3.64) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g. insert/delete line and
support for multiple character sets). There is a scroll-
back history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy-
and-paste mechanism that allows moving text regions
between windows.
clip

For the curious - the FreeBSD tip(1) source builds and runs on MacOSX as is - just remove the FreeBSD macros `__FBSDID($FREEBSD$);' and use bsdmake(1). To attach to the modem, use `cu -l /dev/tty.modem'.

I would absolutely love to recover my old cu utility, but I searched through the FreeBSD ports database and they don't have a specific 'tip' port. Could you give us more details on how to get tip or cu to work on OSX (where to find the source, what to change in the code to get it to compile it, ect..).
I did try to compile UUCP a while back but I was never able to squeeze a binary out of the source code.
Thanks for the 'TIP'
CU
;-)

I should not have alluded to 'tip' in Solaris.. it confused folks.
The command that's pre-installed in Jaguar/Panther is 'screen'
(refer to the 'screen' man pages via the terminal).
I'll leave comments about 'cu' to someone else.

Minicom For Os X 11

Could you please give the exact syntax of the screen-command you use to connect to tty.modem and to your USB-Serial-Adapter.
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Jean-Claude Eischen
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich - Switzerland

Thank you!!! I've been trying to figure out how to get tip/cu finctionality out of OSX. I was using zterm, but it crashes hard, and I can't kill it, even with a 'kill -9' I have a soekris Net4801 that I would like to connect to via a IOGear USB-Serial adapter. This did the trick!
FYI, the command was:
screen /dev/tty.usbserial (depends on the device your driver creates)
-Andy

I just compiled minicom on an XServe. Here are a few things to be aware of re: the serial port.
1) Just like any cisco router or HP switch, etc, the XServe is configured to listen with a secure terminal on the serial port, for config purposes. Disable this before trying to use the serial port for other purposes.
You might *think* of editing /etc/ttys, but you actually want to edit /System/Library/StartupItems/SerialTerminalSupport/SerialTerminalSupport -- and edit the line halfway through to say,
ENABLE_SERIAL_TERMINAL=$FALSE
Once this is done, it's easiest to just reboot the machine.
2) As mentioned above, the serial port is /dev/tty.serial. Here are some of the defaults I compiled into the program:
./configure --enable-dfl-port=/dev/tty.serial --enable-lock-dir=/var/spool/lock --enable-dfl-baud=9600
(of course, that's because my application is to talk to a device at 9600N81, YMMV.)
3) Notice the lock dir mentioned above. There is no /usr/spool/uucp, or /var/lock, as mentioned in the man page. That's why I compiled it with /var/spool/lock instead. I also ended up modifying the permissions on the lock directory, but there's probably a better way to do that. Again, just FWIW.
Hope this is helpful to someone.

Most embedded Linux / BSD systems such as routers, servers and nas devices comes with console interface (serial port with RS-232). BIOS can uses this, and after boot BIOS screen I/O is redirected so that you can use the device. RS-232 is also used for communicating to headless server, where no monitor or keyboard is installed, during boot when operating system is not running yet and therefore no network connection is possible. You need to use a serial cable between your computer and embedded system or server. In this post I will cover five conman utilities used for serial communication under Linux / Unix / *BSD and Mac OS X.

Find out information about your serial ports

Type the following dmesg command:
$ dmesg egrep --color 'serial ttyS'
Sample outputs:

You can use setserial command which is designed to set and/or report the configuration information associated with a serial port:
$ setserial -g /dev/ttyS[0123]
Sample outputs:

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#1 cu command

The cu command is used to call up another system and act as a dial in terminal. cu command is installed on many Unix like systems including OpenBSD/AIX/Solaris and so on. You can use it as follows:

In this example, I’m using /dev/ttyS0 with 19200 baud-rate:

Sample outputs:

To exit enter tilde dot (~.).

#2 screen command

Use the screen command as follows:
$ screen /dev/device baud-rate
$ screen /dev/ttyS0 19200
$ screen /dev/ttySUSB0 19200,cs8
Sample outputs:

#3 minicom command

minicom command is a communication program which somewhat resembles the shareware program TELIX from old good MS-DOS days. Type minicom to connect:
$ minicom
Sample outputs:
See how to install and use minicom under Linux operating systems.

#4 putty command

PuTTY is a free and open source gui X based terminal emulator client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client. It works under Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, MS-Windows and few other operating systems. See how to configure and use putty for cisco routers:
You can use the apt-get or yum command to install putty:
$ sudo apt-get install putty

#5 tip command

The tip command is used as a serial terminal. tip command can be found under AIX/HP-UX/Solairs/*BSD/Linux operating systems. The syntax is:
tip -19200 device
tip -19200 s0
tip -19200 ttys0

How do I redirect Linux / BSD console output over serial port?

See our previous howtos about setting and redirecting console output over serial port:

You can also use the KVM over IP client as described here for serial console redirection over IP (LAN/WAN).

A note about MS-Windows users

If you forced to use MS-Windows, try the following free and open source serial communication programs:

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Here is a quick demo of my Soekris router running monowall embedded version. The minicom is used to connect to the device and access BIOS and boot the system:

(Video.01: minicom in action)