Fine tuning Serial Access

24 Oct 2002

      Hi,

I have enabled serial access to my firewall and I can login via
"Minicom". Yet there are parts that need improvement.

Firewall/ SuSE 7.1 2.2.19
/etc/inittab

S0:123:respawn:/sbin/agetty -w -t90 115200n8 ttyS0 vt102

(I have tried with 9600 but it fails the minimum I could work out is
38400 )

toganm@gardiyan:~ > locale
LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE=POSIX
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=

Admin machine is SuSE 8.0 2.4.18-4GB 

.minirc.dfl
pu baudrate         115200
pu mdialtime        80
pu mautobaud        Yes
pu rtscts           No 
pu multiline        No 

toganm@earth:~> locale
LANG=tr_TR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="tr_TR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="tr_TR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=POSIX
LC_COLLATE=POSIX
LC_MONETARY="tr_TR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=en_US
LC_PAPER="tr_TR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="tr_TR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="tr_TR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="tr_TR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="tr_TR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="tr_TR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Problem is no matter what my geometry is for the XTerm that the minicom
is called there are no colors in the (I am not talking about the -c on
parameter) displayed dialogues and the screen size is very narrow and I
do not have straight lines as seen in below. 

This latter tells me something is wrong with character conversion or
terminal emulation 

               +������������������������������������������������+               
               | IPTraf                                         |               
               | An IP Network Statistics Utility               |               
               | Version 2.3.1                                  |               
               |                                                |               
               | Written by Gerard Paul Java                    |               
               | Copyright (c) Gerard Paul Java 1997-2000       |               
               |                                                |               
               | This program is distributed under the terms of |               
               | the GNU General Public License Version 2 or    |               
               | any later version. See the included COPYING    |               
               | file for details.                              |               
               |                                                |               
               | Press a key to continue                        |               
               +������������������������������������������������+               

I have tried minicom under mlterm, wterm,XTerm. XTerm with UTF-8 enabled
with no success in solving the line/column and color problem. I tried to
start minicom with vt102/vt100 emulation but still the problem remains

So where do I need to tweak, any ideas ?

-- 

Togan Muftuoglu
Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer
http://dinamizm.ath.cx