2 Aug
2026
2 Aug
'26
3:38 a.m.
On Sat, 2026-08-01 19:41:08 -0500, Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Well, everything is a fight!
[...]
I have no idea why the laptop doesn't
communicate. I have tried
minicom, picocom and cutecom, same result on all of them.
Well, summing up:
* Check that the USB device is found at all by invoking `lsusb` as root
* Check that the serial device is found by calling `dmesg` and `ls -l /dev/ttyACM*
/dev/ttyUSB*`
* Ensure your user has permissions to access the TTY device node
* Ensure you have a corr3ct serial config (Ctrl-A O): Correct speed, bits per byte,
parity, stopbits. And disable all handshake (rts/cts, dtr/dsr, xon/xoff) initially
MfG, JBG
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