

Scroll down with the cursor keys to “Serial Port Setup”. We want to cOnfigure Minicom – so press O. This shows you the different commands you can carry out.

Nothing will happen – our tools are not working! This is because hardware flow control is on, and we need to turn it off. This should loopback what you send, demonstrating that the adapter can both send and receive. Why? You always need to test your tools and instruments are working before using them in anger.
#Mac terminal emulator usb serial serial
On the USB serial adapter, use a jumper wire to connect RX back onto TX. By default, you need to run minicom as root to access serial devices.

We need to tell it which device we are interacting with. There are alternatives, but I find minicom is the easiest. This is a terminal emulator that we will use to connect to the DVR. This should show you if the device has been recognised.
#Mac terminal emulator usb serial mac
Windows is a world of pain it’s probably tolerable on a Mac but I have not tried.Ĭonnect the USB serial adapter to the machine. Ideally, we should be using 20.04, but some tools that are heavily used in hardware hacking (like Binwalk) do not currently work under 20.04. I am using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as my operating system. This can be a powerful tool to the reverse engineer, allowing recovery of firmware, dynamic analysis, and access to other hardware components. Many embedded Linux devices will have a serial port on them, which can allow us access at either the bootloader or operating system level.
