Well I still do have one problem after all. I thought the above instructions would set the serial speed, but it doesn't 9600 seems to be the only speed that works. No matter what I do the serial speed stays at 9600.

Now to change the serial speed for ttyUSB0?

*RESOLVED* After I got a lead, digging deeper into the bowels of Google I found EXACTLY what I was looking for. It lead me back to a thread here. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=177076&p=1129209&hilit=getty#p1129209 copied a default config file fron /lib/systemd/system/serial...

OK, I may have found a solution but could use a tweak? From the shell I tried the following. /sbin/agetty -8 ttyUSB0 9600 vt102 Bingo! I get a login prompt on the other end. The only problem is I lose my rpi prompt until I exit on the other end. Is there an argument to use agetty and not lose the ma...

I installed the most recent Raspbian Jessie Lite and am trying to use a serial console with a USB Serial port adapter. I'm not getting a login prompt on the other end. I can use the echo command see see it on the other end. I do echo testest > /dev/ttyUSB0 and I see testest on the other end. I do ls...