problems with minicom and a PBX

[Adam Lackorzynski]

Hi,

On Thu Mar 15, 2012 at 09:18:42 +0100, Jens Bürger wrote:
> I have got a problem with Minicom and connecting to a PBX.
> 
> I'm running Lubuntu Linux (11.04 I think) with minicom and I want to connect to a Telekom Octopus E300/800 PBX via RS232.
> 
> The PBX itself is allright, because using the original provided Windows 98-Terminalemulation, everything works as expected.
> 
> But, using minicom, I've got some issues: the communications seems to run fine so far, but there are some minor issues the communication is lacking:
> 
> - German Umlauts (I'm just getting the inverse questionmarks instead)

minicom support translation between local and remote character sets via
-R option which should be useful here.

> - text colors

Start minicom with -c on

> The major problem is that there is a problem when typing Meta-keys like ESC, F3 and F4.
> These keys are important when programming the PBX.
> When I'm typing F3 or F4 for instance, the PBX seems to receive 'r' / 's' (when I remember right).
> 
> The only point that could solve my problem yet was the "Macros enabled"-option of minicom. AFAIR, disabling this didn't help.
> 
> The PBX is said to do a VT220-Emulation.

I do not know the PBX but you could play with the terminal settings
(ctrl-a t), maybe that helps.



Adam
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