Dell Edge Gateway 3001 Installation and Operation Manual

Minicom is a terminal emulation program which allows the host machine to communicate with and debug the serial port on headless systems, such as the Edge Gateway. The following steps help you to setup Minicom.

1. Install Minicom.

   $ sudo snap install classic --devmode --beta
   $ sudo classic.create
   $ sudo classic
   $ (classic) sudo apt-get update
   $ (classic) sudo apt-get install minicom

2. Set Minicom.

   $ sudo minicom -s

3. Select Serial port setup.
4. Press A to edit the Serial Device to ttyUSB0. This can be any other value if there is more than one USB serial cable attached. Then, press Enter to exit:

   A - Serial Device : /dev/ttyUSB0

5. Press F to disable Hardware Flow Control to No.
6. Press E to edit Baud rate/Parity/Bits.
7. Press E to configure Baud rate as 115200.
   1. Press Q to configure Stopbits as 8-N-1. Press Enter to exit.

      Table 1. Comm parametersThe following table lists the comm parameters:

      +---------[Comm Parameters]---------+
      |	Current: 115200 8N1
      | | | | |	Speed A: <next> B: <prev> C: 9600 D: 38400 E: 115200	Parity L: None M: Even N: Odd O: Mark P: Space	Data S: 5 T: 6 U: 7 V: 8	| | | |
      |				|
      |	Stopbits			|
      |	W: 1	Q: 8-N-1		|
      |	X: 2	R: 7-E-1		|
      |				|
      |	Choice, or <Enter> to exit?_			|

8. Press Enter to complete the settings.
9. Select Save setup as dfl.
10. Select Exit from minicom.

Start Minicom as a terminal program

$ sudo minicom

Welcome to minicom 2.7

OPTIONS: T18n
Compiled on Feb 7 2017, 13:37:27.
Port /dev/ttylUSB0, 15:06:26

Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys

Exit Minicom

1. In terminal mode, press Ctrl+A.

   A message bar is displayed at the bottom of the terminal window.

2. Press X to exit.