Re: Favorite getty for serial consoles?

> "Simon" == Simon Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Simon> I've been tearing my hair out trying to get an old dec VT320 to Simon> correctly talk to my computer. I can login but every 2 or 3 Simon> lines get a wierd control character and lots of backward "?"s. Simon> I've tried agetty and g

Favorite getty for serial consoles?

I've been tearing my hair out trying to get an old dec VT320 to correctly talk to my computer. I can login but every 2 or 3 lines get a wierd control character and lots of backward "?"s. I've tried agetty and gettyps. I'd like to be able to specify parity, hardware flow control etc on the server

micro-HOWTO (was Serial consoles)

Hi! I've seen FreeBSD being installed over a serial console and thought "Hmm, how can I do this with debian?". I was aware of the sercons stuff in recent 2.1 kernels. Initiated by a question from Shane Wegner on debian-user I tried it out (up to "partition a harddisk" - I had no spare disk to con

Re: Serial consoles

Hi! Rainer Clasen (bj): > Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I posted here a few months ago about getting the Debian installation > > process to work on a serial console over a null modem connection to a > > vt100 terminal. > You need to modify root.bin! gunzip it, mount it via loop and replac

Re: Serial consoles

Hi! Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I posted here a few months ago about getting the Debian installation > process to work on a serial console over a null modem connection to a > vt100 terminal. ... > in a dos directory. My question is will simply rebuilding that linux file > as a developemen

Re: Serial consoles

linux image >provided with a developement kernel and enabling serial consoles that way. I backported the 2.1.x serial console stuff to the 2.0.x kernels. That's perhaps an easier way to go .. see ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/kernel/ Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

Serial consoles

and enabling serial consoles that way. I am installing from a dos partition which I'll delete later so I have base2_1.tgz, drv1440.bin, install.bat, linux, resc1440.bin, and root.bin in a dos directory. My question is will simply rebuilding that linux file as a developement kernel and ed