Hyper Terminal

[Mitchy_Boy]

I need a really small Laptop/Netbook as i travel for business a lot and the weight of my current laptop breaks my back after a while. I have been looking online and the Acer Inspire One seems to fit the bill. Light and a fairly deent screen size. The problem is that i have always used Windows in its various guises, but this runs Linux Linpus Lite. I am not familier with this. I know it is Linux based which is not a problem but 90% of my usage is using Hyper Terminal. Does this O/S have this or something similar???

[ChuckFickens]

Yep, it's called minicom

[ChuckFickens]

oh, but the netbook hasn't got a serial port so you may find you come unstuck there!

[Mitchy_Boy]

Thanks ChuckFickens. Would this work when logging into Cisco equipment? I have a USB -> Serial cable, i imagine this would work??

[ChuckFickens]

A proper cisco person? wow!

yeah, minicom would let you login to Cisco stuff no problems. but, linpus is a very cut down version of Linux and I don't know if it will come with minicom installed, it can be installed, but installing stuff on a linpus netbook is not straightforward!.

You also may have a problem with the USB-RS-232 device, there is a certain amount of support for those adaptors built into the linux kernel these days but not for all of them, and again, linpus is a cut down version of linux, support for that sort of thing is likely to be reduced.

I'd go for a windows XP netbook in your situation, they are still available and really cheap as they are selling of the last stock and it would work with your stuff.