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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!informatik.uni-bremen.de!gina.zfn.uni-bremen.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-leipzig.de!news1.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: serial problems Date: 28 May 1996 07:04:29 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4oe8ht$3hd@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <cajas001.833227840@maroon.tc.umn.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E cajas001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Judith I Cajas-Dorin) wrote: > Help! I can't get slip or getty to work. I have edited /etc/ttys > and added the line for ttyd0, but without luck. My terminal just > sits there. Any thoughts? The terminal is direct connected, with > a null modem in between. The terminal probably doesn't provide pseudo-carrier (or your null modem cable). You need to declare the port as being a `local' one. The ``terminal'' entry in /etc/rc.serial does NOT do this for you, but the ``maybe'' entry might be a maybe for you. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)