Connecting to serial port using HyperTerminal

Robert Fitzpatrick robert at webtent.com
Tue Oct 19 19:46:58 PDT 2004


I see the Terminals docs in the handbook for connecting to the serial port.
It looks as if maybe my FreeBSD 5.2 has getty up and running with several
instances:

64553  v0  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv0
  808  v1  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1
  809  v2  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2
  810  v3  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv3
  811  v4  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv4
  812  v5  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv5
  813  v6  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv6
  814  v7  Is+    0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv7

What do I need to do more to allow the connection from my Windows machine in
HyperTerminal? I've tried various settings, can someone suggest the correct
settings?

--
Robert



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