Re: Enabling Serial Port Console Login
type <dmesg | more> and you should be able to see if serial ports are
available to you. You have to uncomment one of the terminal lines in
/etc/inittab. The connect speed on your terminal (or PC pretending to be
one) must be the same. The text-terminal howto <http://www.linuxdoc.org>
has many diagrams for making your own null-modem cables which are required
for computer to terminal, (computer) equipment. When you have
/etc/inittab modified you don't have to reboot the machine, just type
<init q> as root. If the terminal or PC emulating one is setup and
connected a login prompt should appear on it's screen.
If you need support for serial ports it is under the heading, "Character
devices" when used with make menuconfig.
Hope this helps.
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John Kerr Anderson
jkanders@alpha.delta.edu
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
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On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Peter Kim wrote:
> I need to be able to login to my Linux web server, via a communications
> server (Portmaster). The communications server will be connected to web
> server with a serial cable.
>
> I've connected my PC to my web server's serial port (COM1) and (COM2) with
> a cross cable and tried to login with Tera Term. Tera Term cannot connect.
> Nothing shows on the terminal and anything I type does not appear on the
> screen.
>
> I have heard that I have to recompile the kernel with some options set to
> make COM1 AND COM2 come "alive".
>
> Questions:
> 0. Is it possible to have COM1, COM2, or BOTH come alive?
> 1. What options do I have to set when I compile my kernel? I am running
> "make xconfig" and I can't seem to find any option that turns this feature
> "on" on the GUI.
>
> Help!
> :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
>
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