[U-Boot-Users] Kermit + minicom + u-boot

Is there any problem using this combination for serial downloads into u-boot. I've not had much luck. I was mildly surprised that the "Building Embedded Linux Systems Book" by Yaghmour, singled out minicom as not working well with u-boot. Minicom has been around so long that I thought it would just work......that and when you check your minicom log it just calls /usr/bin/kermit anyway.

Any suggestions for what is bet to use? cu,seyon, c-kermit directly, g-kermit ...

Thanks,

Richard W.