Re: Serial TTY's
Richard Kaszeta wrote:
>
> Okay, I've got a fairly out-of-the-box Bo system, and I wanted to hook
> up a dumb text terminal to it (in addition to the standard console).
> I've done this before on Linux and Debian machines, no problem, but
> now it's not working.
>
> For starts, I tried uncommenting the line in inittab
>
> T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 19200 vt100
>
> And I get a login prompt just fine. And it prompts me for a
> password. Then a minute later getty dies and is respawned by init.
It prompts you for a password before you type your login? If so there
must be something wrong with the terminal settings.
> I get the same results with the corresponding commands for gettyps and
> mgetty.
>
> I am guessing that login's config is responsible, but it's a little
> hard to diagnose since login_961025-2.deb's documentation doesn't
> match the programs well.
>
> Oh, and the getty is 1.45a-3
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