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Re: Connecting a console.
Hey,
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:
> coolness :-) I always wanted a VT at home... I remember calling BBSes
> from a VT220 at the army at 2400 almost 10 years ago :-)
Calling BBSs from the army. naughty ;)
> the VT should just be set to the same line speed and soft flow control,
> remember to cross the serial cable because both computer and terminal
> are DTE, so a modem cable won't do. simple 1-1, 2-3, 3-2, 7-7 should be
> fine for a D-type 25. if your linux has only 9 pin outputs, I don't
> remember the pinout (sorry).
Thats the problem, it's 9 pin and I'm almost sure that my problem is the
cable I made is not good.
Any way I could find such cable in office depot or something ?
> after that, you simply add a getty to /etc/inittab to listen on that
> port. but try mgetty instead of mingetty, it's supposed to have more
> options for terminal. see the manpage for setting Xon/Xoff flowcontrol
> and you're on your way.
Can't I just do something like "echo "blah" > /dev/cua2" and see it
written on the monitor of the VT ?
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