Terminal Not Providing login: Prompt

[Glenn Dawson]

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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