needed help on MINICOM

[Mike McCarty]

Gowri Satish Adimulam wrote:
> Hi ,
> Iam try to use minicom as simple com-port, it is connected to embedded
> system board via RS 232 cable.
> 
> 
> in minicom ->serial port setup i have set as
> 
> ttyS3,
> baud rate 57600 8n1 which in acordance with embedded system.
> 
> 
> 
> When my embedded systme boots up , there should  be some messages
> displayed on my com port , but unfortunately its not happening.
> 
> i have verified the same setup in windows using hyperterminal it is
> working fine.
> 
> do i need to do any thing more in the setup.
> 
> Thanks in Advance.

You may have permission problems. Are you running minicom as root?
If not, then what are the permissions on /dev/ttyS3?

Mike
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