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/ | | > i have two woody boxes at home. each of them can connect to a router via | serial cable at 9600 baud (8N1). i thought that by running the serial cable | from one to the other i would be greeted by a login screen, but i wasn't. i | haven't set up any thing out-of-the-ordinary to allow login on the serial | port, i just thought it would work. any thoughts on what i need to do? | hello, thanks! that's what i wanted. sorry i wan't too clear. i'm having trouble with a nic in that box, and only have one nic in this pc (the one one the 'net (smtp)), and i wanted to be able to access that other pc (with the bad nic) without hooking up monitor/keyboard/mouse. i just looked in my /etc/inittab, and found: #T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 #T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100 so, that's pretty cool... i just didn't know where to look. i have a few more questions: 1. must i use 9600 baud or can i just go higher? 2. the id field - you've said s) and the example says T0, should that matter? that's about it. too bad i have to wait until later to try it! thanks! 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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