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Re: need help adding a terminal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harold E Vine III)
Sun Oct 25 22:33:28 1998
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 22:27:33 -0500
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From: Harold E Vine III <harold@xpres.net>
Cc: dsb3@earthlink.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981025003238.2469C-100000@sundance.eth>
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well i want to thank you gentlemen for turning me in the correct direction.
i found the HOWTO and following it, i had to reconfigure my modem IN WIN98
and linux in order to stop an irq conflict that i had sharing irq 3 with
coms 2 and 4.
my modem WAS on com4 irq3 and now on com 4 irq 7 with no conflicts in win98
and working properly.
after booting linux and "setserial" commands were added, all is now working
well WITH THE MODEM :-)
BUT...
with the line....
in inittab
s1:456:respaw:/sbin/getty ttyS1 DT9600 vt100
according to the serial how too that is how i should start.
now here is an interesting problem.
the getty does not show in the list if i do a ps ax
and of course the terminal attached seems not to work.
BUT...
if i issue a shutdown......
and after i see...
sending all processes the TERM signal....
THEN i see the message....getty starting, and THEN the login prompt
appears in all its glory on the attached term.
what a nitemare.
after hours of this i just cant seem to get a grip on it.
am i missing a link, or process thats getting killed and releasing the
resource when its killed?
or am i just plain missing something?
thanks....
your help was much appreciated....
> I added the proper{i think} entry into inittab, but i just cant seem to
> get a getty started on my serial ports.
>>What line have you added to your inittab??
> is there a "how to" on this?
>>Have you tried the Serial Howto?? This Howto is no longer maintained at
>>the moment, so you should be able to find it in
>>/usr/doc/HOWTO/unmaintained
>>Regards
>>Chris
At 12:34 AM 10/25/98 , dsb3 wrote:
>On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Harold E Vine III wrote:
>
>>i want to add a terminal on a serial port .
>>i've read and read. but somehow i'm missing something.
>>running rh 5.1 out of the box.....added the proper{i think}
>>entry into inittab, but i just cant seem to get a getty started on my
>>serial ports.
>>is there a "how to" on this? That someone could point me too?
>>i'm kinda lost and i think my trying to apply a slackware way to do this
>>is not working correct.
>>
>
>i run a serial port on ttyS0, and my inittab line looks like this:
>
>s1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -h ttyS0 DT9600 vt320
>
>
>I need the -h since otherwise the hangup signal gets in the way. I'm
>using the DT (dumb terminal) speed definition to prevent it from trying to
>cycle through the baud rates, with the terminal on vt320 emulation.
>
>If you can describe how the terminal behaves I might have a chance of
>diagnosing it. I've certainly spent enough time getting this one to work
>to recognize at least a few of the symptoms!
>
>-dave
>
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