minicom can be made to always run in color by modifying the ~/.bashrc file, setting the MINICOM environment variable by adding the lines shown below, and restarting your terminal session (or sourcing your. The c specifies the color display and on tells minicom to display the interface in color. Run the minicom command with the option -con. If the display isn't colored, arrow down to Exit from Minicom. This should bring up a colorful display listing the different settings. h Show a list of arguments that minicom accepts.įor a more comprehensive list of options and their descriptions, read the manpage for minicom:
#MINICOM FOR WINDOWS SERIAL#
D The device name for the serial port being used. b The serial port baud rate used by the external device–typically a SOM. The following list of arguments can be used to alter minicom's behavior from the command line: This page sets out to provide general information about using minicom to communicate between EMAC machines and a development PC. The use of a terminal emulator, such as minicom, is required when connecting to an EMAC board via a serial console. For serious work with Linux, a real Linux terminal (such as minicom, described here) is strongly recommended. In particular, a number of keystroke shortcuts will not work with PuTTY, and not all output will be displayed correctly in PuTTY (although it does manage to display most output correctly). Please note that while PuTTY will work, it is missing a number of features relative to a real Linux terminal. More information about PuTTY can be found at.
#MINICOM FOR WINDOWS PC#
For those using Windows, PuTTY is a viable application to make such connections between a Windows PC and one of our EMAC devices. If run by calling its name without any additional arguments, it uses whatever settings have been saved for its defaults in /etc/minicom/minirc.dfl.
Minicom is a serial communication program that connects to devices through a GNU/Linux PC's serial ports.
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