Sunday, October 03, 2021

Re: USB-to-Serial

I wonder if I purchased a bad cable... I see partial ASCII words, like:

U�quit�

But mostly I see non-printable characters. Attaching/reattaching the
cable doesn't seem to solve it either. It's a USB-to-RJ45 Serial cable.

On 10/3/21 12:29 PM, Yifei Zhan wrote:
> On 10/3/21 15:07, David Anthony wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm attempting to use cu to connect to an EdgeRouter PoE device. I am
>> in the dialer group. I am running the following command in an Xterm
>> window:
>>
>> $ cu -l cuaU0 -s 115200
>>
>> The following command appears to succeed, but (mostly) gibberish is
>> returned to my terminal. I'm not sure if it's non-printable ASCII or
>> I'm doing something seriously wrong. Official documentation on this
>> device claims a baud rate of 115200. Any ideas?
>>
>
> This happened to my edgerouter awhile ago and unplug/replug both ends
> of the serial adapter should fix it.
>
> The baud rate for it has always been 115200 AFAIK.
>
>

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