Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General
> terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I
> still have problems.
> Pressing return on the terminal causes getty to put up the login message
> and prompt, just as it should. After entering a user name (getty kicks off
> login) a short line of garbage that looks like it would like to say
> Password but actually says:
>
> P8^w'd
>
> and then moves up to the previous line and prints:
>
> dwarf (the user name)
>
> entering the password for dwarf at this point creates a spew of reverse
> video spam across several lines and eventually produces a reverse video
> prompt. All input typed at the keyboard from this point on is reverse
> video. Anything that I type is displayed ok on the terminal. Anything that
> bash returns to the terminal is hopeless garbage.
>
> I have tried several terminal types (setting TERM=vt100|tty does no good)
>
> What do I need to do to get login and bash to work?
>
Maybe you could nose around in /etc/termcap and find something
that has to do with Data General. vt100 probably isn't going to
help you.
Regards,
Eric
Reply to: