arm64 terminal program need.

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2026, gene heskett wrote:

> On 1/15/26 18:45, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 5:50 PM gene heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> > wrote:
> > > Now I need a terminal like program for arm64 that can talk
> > > to /dev/ttyUSB0 on the same machine. Preferably something
> > > with decent help so I don't have to pester you folks.
> > >
> > > Is there such a critter?
> > Use the same one you use on your AMD-based or Intel-based desktop.
> They all seem to be written for ethernet, this is usb, by way of a ch340
> adapter.  I found "moserial"  which
> is supposed to talk to /dev/ttyUSB#, but I can't get a peep out of the
> target,
> supposedly should work at 115200 baud 8N1.  There may be others, minicom
> comes to mind but its been
> dropped.  So I've asked sovol whats next.

What is listening at the other end ?
You may want to run something like "agetty"
(the current standard alternative to "getty").

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
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