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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 ?
>  


You might also want to look for a small rigid adaptor that will do it instead 
of a cable.


> > 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 ?
> 


[01:30:03 /tmp]$ zgrep -A 1 -B 1 cua /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.17/Documenta
tion/Changes.gz

   Also, please remember that cua* devices are now obsolete.  Switch to
the corresponding ttyS* device instead (e.g., cua0 -> ttyS0, cua1 ->
ttyS1, etc.).
[01:30:15 /tmp]$ 

Another point, probably the last thing to do is 
	export TERM=vt340



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