Serial HOWTO David S.Lawyer. V2.27 February 2011 This document is for the UART serial port. 16.2 Serial Monitoring/Diagnostics; 16.3.

Serial HOWTO Previous Contents Serial HOWTO David S.Lawyer original by Greg Hankins v2.27 February 2011 This document is for the UART serial port. This port has mostly disappeared from desktops and laptops is still used elsewhere such as for embedded systems. It covers information other than that which should be covered by Modem-HOWTO, PPP-HOWTO, Serial-Programming-HOWTO, or Text-Terminal-HOWTO. It lists info on multiport serial cards. It contains technical info about the serial port itself in more detail than found in the above HOWTOs and should be best for troubleshooting when the problem is the serial port itself.

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Question: I need to access the management terminal of a hardware switch/router (e.g., Cisco Catalyst or HP ProCurve) via its console port. The switch console port is connected to the serial port of my Linux box. How can I connect to the serial port from a Linux terminal? First of all, let's assume that you have already connected the serial port of your Linux box to a switch console port via a.

To connect a Linux terminal to the serial port of your Linux system, you can use a command-line screen manager tool called screen. Install screen on Linux To install screen on Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint.