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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!phase2.worldnet.att.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.deltanet.com!usenet From: Chuck Zmudzinski <chuckz@deltanet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Direct Terminal Connection Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 14:35:47 -0800 Organization: Delta Internet Services, Anaheim, CA Lines: 12 Message-ID: <32977C43.646F@deltanet.com> Reply-To: chuckz@deltanet.com NNTP-Posting-Host: gar0244.deltanet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K) I am looking for help in connecting another computer to a NetBSD1.2 machine using the serial port. I have a Pentium running NetBSD1.2, and cannot get another computer connected as a terminal through the serial port. I can see that getty is running on the serial port using ps after activiting the port in the ttys file, and an RS232 connection tester shows that the NetBSD machine is trying to send something to the terminal, but no login prompt ever appears on the terminal, and the terminal doesn't appear to be able to send anything to the NetBSD machine. I have tried using the Windows95 Hyperterminal program or a Macintosh running Z-term1.01 as the terminal, and have used a null modem adapter between the two computers. Am I missing something obvious? Please reply to me be e-mail. Thanks.