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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!peer-news.britain.eu.net!warwick!niss!bath.ac.uk!dcl-cs!strath-cs!not-for-mail From: nbc@muir-10.cs.strath.ac.uk (Neil Clark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems with terminals Date: 23 Nov 1995 20:33:10 -0000 Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <492lq6$8ul@muir-10.cs.strath.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: muir-10.cs.strath.ac.uk 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. Help! Any more information will be gladly given. Neil