On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:45:56AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 09:13:04PM -0600, Ramesh Panuganty wrote: | | | | Edit /etc/inittab to add the line, (if you use COM2 to connect, change ttyS0 | | to ttyS1) | | s0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT9600 | | | | Then issue: "kill -HUP 1" | | | | If you also need to see the boot-up messages, you need to change | | /etc/lilo.conf to pass the options for console. | | | | -Ramesh | | http://panuganty.tripod.com/debiantips/ | | <<-- snip -->> hello again, i just thought of something... with this same set-up, would i be able to get pppd to listen on a serial port (not a "modem") and authenticate that way, to establish a ppp interface so that i can use ip and things such as samba? i know it would be super-slow, but is it possible? thanks again, jason -- --------------------------------------------------------------- | http://theigloo.dhs.org:81 | http://counter.li.org/ | | Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Woody | 2.4.16-k6 | | jason@theigloo.dhs.org | registered linux user #202942 | ---------------------------------------------------------------
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