Re: Connecting up of a dumb terminal.
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Alistair Phillips wrote:
: I have managed to get my Linux side up and running. Boy is linux sure
: great! I have an old 286 here that I would like to use as a dumb terminal.
: I know that I would have to connect the two computers up via a serial
: cable and run a terminal program on the other end. I would like to connect
: it to my IBM on com2. Please can you explain to me in great detail what it
: is that I must do to do this. Many thanks! BTW, please reply to
: phiali@bigfoot.com as I am not subscribed to the list.
It isn't that difficult :-)
Make sure you properly setup the /dev/ttyS1 (com2) on the Linux box, using
setserial. Now connect them, en add something to inittab - 'man inittab'
will be your friend.
And if you're a bit lucky, after setting up the Terminal-program on your
286, it should work fine!
bye,
Remco
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