Kremer <kremer at ringworld.org> wrote: > > my problem is that in order to upgrade the firmware, it is standard to use > zmodem to send the new firmware image to the RAID controller. from what > I've gathered, sz should send the image, but all sz does is blurt out the > same output that i last got in my minicom screen, and hang itself. > if anyone does anything of the sort, could you tell me if this command > looks right. from reading the man, it looks like this should be right, > but I may lack fundamental knowledge of the zmodem protocol, or something > like that... > # sz -b --zmodem <filename> /dev/ttyS0 sz, rz, and the [xy]modem commands generally talk to stdin/stdout, so you'd probably want to redirect IO. Not sure if this would work.. sz file < /dev/ttyS0 > /dev/ttyS0 But at any rate, you should be able to send files with zmodem from within minicom. Press CTRL-A then S, and you should be able to pick the zmodem protocol, then a file to upload. Whatever you're sending to generally has to be expecting a zmodem transfer, though.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ I Have To Stop Now, My / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Fingers Are Getting Hoarse! \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020213/b68bd179/attachment.pgp