Terminal Not Providing login: Prompt
Glenn Dawson
glenn at antimatter.net
Sat Mar 4 23:27:57 UTC 2006
At 03:04 PM 3/4/2006, Jason C. Wells wrote:
>When I use 'tip' I seem to bee connected, but I get no login prompt.
>
>$ tip sio0
>connected
>
>and nothing else.
Did you enable ttyd0 in /etc/ttys?
-Glenn
>If I telnet to the receiving host and redirect a file to the serial
>line, I do see data being transmitted. The formatting is a bit off though.
>
>(remote)$ cat /etc/issue
>(remote)$Hello there!
>(remote)$
>(remote)$This is a serial line terminal.
>
>(remote)$ cat /etc/issue > /dev/ttyd0
>(local)Hello there!
>(local)
>(local) This is a serial line terminal.
> ^^^^^^
> extra spaces are garbage output
>
>Every document I have read assumes that your terminal will just
>work. I am connecting a FreeBSD host to a FreeBSD host using
>default 9600 baud settings and things aren't working well. It's
>probably pretty hard to determine the fix for my problem via
>email. Can anyone point me to a reference that is comprehensive
>regarding unix serial communications and terminals?
>
>Or am I making this harder than it should be?
>
>Thanks,
>Jason C. Wells
>
>
>
>
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