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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!news.mindlink.net!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with terminals Date: 24 Nov 1995 06:55:31 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 30 Distribution: world Message-ID: <493q94$7gs@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <492lq6$8ul@muir-10.cs.strath.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.sdf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <492lq6$8ul@muir-10.cs.strath.ac.uk>, nbc@muir-10.cs.strath.ac.ukú says... > >Evening folks, > >I'm trying to interface to a Polhemus 3Space Isotrak position/rotation >tracker which uses the serial port with no success. It is currently >plugged into the second of my two serial ports which I presume is /dev/ttyd1. >Modifications to /etc/ttys had no success, so I decided to connect a terminal >on the same serial port as a test case, just to see if I could get it running. > >Unfortunately, I have had nil results in this endeavour. I have in front of >me O'Reilly's Essential System Admin., and have done all the things it says, >but still not a sausage. Here's the line from /etc/ttys; > > ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure > >After this changed I did a "kill -HUP 1", and the getty process is in existance. >The "terminal" I have connected is in fact another PC running the Windows >terminal, and I am sure all the settings are correct; even if they were not, >surely I would at least get some junk coming through? I have verified the >link by running a windows terminal on this machine, and all is fine. Does /dev/ttyd1 exist? Are you in fact connected to COM2? Can you do a "cu -l /dev/cuaa1" to manually test the line/port? Tom