Several folks have had problems with kermit5A not allowing them to set
speed from the kermit prompt "C-kermit>".  I've had the same problem,
where it says, "You must set line first" even though I already have...

To get around this bug, set your line, speed, and parity on the
command line when you call kermit.  Like so:

        kermit -l /dev/ttys0 -b 9600 -p n
                (sets line=COM1: at 9600 baud, no parity)

Personally, I couldn't stand Minicom... so I put the above cludge
into an alias called "kerm".

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan