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From: mattioli@took.enet.dec.com (John R. Mattioli)
Subject: {386bsd} getting a terminal to work?
Message-ID: <1992Dec3.160703.12031@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 15:02:04 GMT
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Hi,
I was looking at my virtually virgin 386bsd installation last night
trying to figure out how to get a serial terminal to come up. For various
reasons, I do most of my work via a serial hard-wired terminal device.
So I went into /etc/ttys and, on the line whith info about "com01" I
replaced the off with an on, exited, rebooted and got an error telling me that
/dev/com01 didn't exist. Looking in /dev I found out that there was a device
called /dev/com1 so I changed my ttys entry for com01 to an entry for com1.
Now I got a login banner but, when I typed nothing showed up on my
terminal. I think I was locked up. I tried sending stuff to the device (i.e.
ls ./dev/com1) and found that characters like <cr> and <tab> were being lost.
In addition, it seemed that handshaking wasn't being done correctly.
I'm sure there's something real basic here that I'm missing, but when
you don't know a thing it becomes far less basic!
Any suggestions on what I should do next would be much appreciated!
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