
Go into Modem and dialing and delete all strings for A through I, and K. +-+īe sure to blank out all the Hayes AT modem commands, otherwise u-boot will get confused and cause the installer to fail. You will also want to change any other settings appropriate for your board such as disabling hardware flow control, a typical setup for a board using USB as communication port should look like the following. Select serial port setup from the menu and press enter which will give you some options to change, type A to change the serial device, you likely want to set it to /dev/ PORT so it accesses your physical UART port though this may vary from PC to PC. gpsdump.0. After downloading the program I run it in terminal. Having -s will prevent minicom from exiting abruptly if it encounter error upon invocation I have found two previous posted issues mentioning the program but not a solution to my problem here and here. Once minicom is installed it will not be setup to talk properly to a board through the UART port, to change the configuration open up a terminal window and run sudo minicom -s at which point you will have to provide your root password and then you will see the minicom configuration utility.
#Serial terminal program for ubuntu install#
To install minicom run sudo apt-get install minicom or select it in Synaptic Package Manager. PORT = The port you are going to use, it depends on your host computer

You may want to consider Setting up Picocom - Ubuntu or the 'Serial Port Terminal' program instead for a more GUI based terminal application.


#Serial terminal program for ubuntu how to#
This explains how to configure serial Port Communication, using Minicom.
