Help settting up Serial Terminal

[Paul Gobble]

I could really use some help.  I have "headless" FreeBSD 5 web server 
that I'd like to be able to log on to via a serial link to my lap top.  
I've been using the FreeBSD Handbook as my guide, but its just not 
getting me there.

Without getting too far into it, does anyone have any suggestion as to 
how I might trouble shoot the system?  What test can I preform to 
isolate the trouble spot?  If you're willing, please read on to get 
more details about what I have done so far.

Thanks for your time + help
Paul Gobble


So far I've installed a couple of terminal emulators on the test PCs 
(one is a Mac OsX TiBook and one is a win2k box). For emulation 
software I've tried (Mac) Zterm and MacWise, (win2k) KoalaTerm.

For the serial cable I'm using a Manhattan LapLink female to female 
null modem serial cable.  When attaching to the TiBook, I add a KeySpan 
PDA Adapter (pn# USA-19). I followed that recommendations I found 
here...
http://www.tertial.org/projects/mac-console/

On the FreeBSD box I've edited the etc/ttys as below
root# vim /etc/ttys
.
.
.
# Serial terminals
# The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc.
ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.19200"  vt100   on  insecure
ttyd1   "/usr/libexec/getty std.19200"  vt100   on  insecure
ttyd2   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
ttyd3   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
.
.
.



The I checked a few things ...
root# /sbin/dmesg | grep sio
usb0: USB revision 1.0
usb1: USB revision 1.0
sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A




[sbox.net:~] root# ps -axww | grep getty
   471  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty std.19200 ttyd0
   472  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty std.19200 ttyd1
   463  v0  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv0
   464  v1  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1
   465  v2  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2
   466  v3  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv3
   467  v4  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv4
   468  v5  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv5
   469  v6  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv6
   470  v7  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv7



But in the end, I get nothing when I connect it all up.  None of the 
emulators on either platform give me a login prompt, or anything at all 
for that matter.