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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:77 comp.os.386bsd.questions:17032 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!insosf1.infonet.net!cynjut.infonet.net!cynjut.infonet.net!not-for-mail From: burgess@cynjut.infonet.net (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Trying to use a serial terminal... Date: 17 Mar 1995 20:43:14 -0600 Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3kdhc3$6us@cynjut.infonet.net> References: <D5CC4r.Dpz@mv.mv.com> <3k69mf$abr@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynjut.infonet.net In article <3k69mf$abr@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > >Perhaps you told the getty to use a modem-style port, but your >terminals don't assert the DCD (carrier detect) line. (Now, that is >_really_ becoming a FAQ, though it's very basic Unix serial line >knowledge at all.) Either wire your connectors so that they fake > But it's in there. I *PROMISE*. I think I promise. Ah, what the heck; it MUST be. Now, where did I put that copy of the FAQ.... -- TSgt Dave Burgess | Dave Burgess NCOIC, USSTRATCOM/J6844 | *BSD FAQ Maintainer Offutt AFB, NE | Burgess@s069.infonet.net