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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!relay.philips.nl!cnplss5!rooij From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Subject: Re: Local login via com1/2 fails Message-ID: <1993May24.102345.7842@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> Keywords: serial getty login Sender: news@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mozart Organization: Philips Communications & Processing Services, Eindhoven References: <1tohqk$t2@socrates.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 10:23:45 GMT Lines: 29 james@socrates.demon.co.uk (James Bridson) writes: >I have spent some time today trying to attach a terminal to my 386bsd box >on COM1. I can add a getty to /dev/com01 and when the remote machine tries >to attach the login prompt is displayed OK. However when the user enters >the login id the session hangs. >As a test I tried simply logging into COM1 from COM2 using tip and a >null modem and serial cable and got the same results. >Any ideas anyone? I am using the default getty entries that come in >/etc/ttys. It is probably your null modem cable. Make sure you have a good one, i.e. tx <-> rx dsr <-> dtr rts <-> cts and vice versa. Plus you should connect (inside the connector) the CD with the DSR. >Cheers, >James >-- >James Bridson The very concept of the Royal Mail I find >james@socrates.demon.co.uk miraculous... I don't even mind queues in > the post office. In Batley, however, folk > aren't so easily impressed.(M.Wallington) > -Guido