According to Andrew MacIntyre: > As I was used to agetty and minicom cooperating nicely on an ancient > Slackware box, I expected this to work on this much more recent Debian box > <sigh>.
That is because that worked with the cua/ttyS devices (kernel based locking between dialin/dialout) which has officially been deprecated by the linux kernel developers. > I use mgetty at home, but didn't really want to have to deal with its > complexities for the situation at hand. Complex? Mgetty? mgetty -s 38400 /dev/ttyS1 ? > The situation's more or less under control, so I won't worry about the > problem further, although I was disappointed not be able to find the getty > source package. Source of both agetty and mgetty is available on all debian mirrors. Mike. -- Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
