Hi Byron/Herbert,
Minicom seems to be the one, I just need to work out how to configure
it... :)
I have a separate machine for each system and I am in the process of
buying a KVM switch, as changing the monitor from one machine to the
other is a pain. Working with Windows left me almost unable to stand the
text based stuff but I am finally starting to kick the habit and is
funny that many other things become a bit clearer... but is hard going.
Thanks for all the help
Best regards
		Luis



Luis Moreira
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tel. 01235464615
JET PSU Department
UKAEA Culham Division
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-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Herbert Graf
Sent: 15 July 2005 14:33
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: RE: [OT]: LINUX

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 12:39 +0100, Luis Moreira wrote:
> Thanks Jose
> The links are very useful.
> I also need to find a program to send and receive data using the
serial
> port like a console. In windows I am using HiperTerminal but in Linux
> which program shall I use? Is it Telnet?
> Best regards
> 		Luis

FC3 has minicom, give that one a wirl. It's text based (no GUI) but
works wonderfully.

Congrats on starting the transition. I spent years considering the
transition. Dual booting worked, but was too inconvenient and time
consuming. Then Dell had one of their $300 PCs with free shipping, add a
KVM and that's the machine I'm currently typing on. I power up my
windows machine when I need something specific but that's getting rarer
and rarer. It's been about a week since I booted that machine...

With Linux the support community is the internet. Every issue I've had
with Linux was resolved by searching on google. If you get an error
message try copying that message into google, more often then not
someone else has gotten that exact same error and posted a solution!

The only thing that still bugs me about some Linux distros is upgrading.
For some reason Redhat/Fedora has never been good on the "upgrade"
front. It's gotten much better, but still isn't perfect.

For example, I upgraded my machine from FC3 to FC4. Everything works
fine, except up2date still thinks it's FC3 (anyone know what to change
to get up2date to know it's running on FC4?) and 'yum update' doesn't
work!!??! Latest message is that a package it wants to install conflicts
with one installed, yet neither are recognized by yum on their own, very
frustrating. Looks like I'll have to wipe this machine and install FC4
fresh, oh well...

TTYL

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