arm64 terminal program need.

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:28:14 +0000 (GMT) "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026, gene heskett wrote:
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> > 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").

No, I suspect the OP is talking to the console of a Raspberry / Orange /
Banana / Rock Pi-like machine or some kind of MCU with a USB (Arduino or
Arduino-like) or a BeagleBoard. Picocomm is the proper tool for that.

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