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Re: need help adding a terminal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Smith)
Mon Oct 26 12:07:47 1998
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 06:21:45 -0500
From: Fred Smith <fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
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In-Reply-To: <199810260333.WAA09046@harry.xpres.net>; from Harold E Vine III on Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 10:27:33PM -0500
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On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 10:27:33PM -0500, Harold E Vine III wrote:
> 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
If the line above is EXACTLY what you have in inittab, then it isn't
quite right. Try changing it to read:
s1:456:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 DT9600 vt100
^
Also, after changing it, type the command:
telinit q
and the getty should then start up and show if you do:
ps -x
good luck!
Fred
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