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From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: Using a terminal with Minix
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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 01:10:42 GMT
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David M. Williams (dave@alinga.newcastle.edu.au) wrote:
: Hello,
:   I have set Minix up on a 286 PC.  However, I can't work out how to get
: a dumb terminal to work with it.  I connected the terminal to the PC's
: serial port, and modified /etc/ttys so that /dev/tty1 and /dev/tty2 were
: set to 2fn.  I rebooted, and a ps -axl shows two getty processes
: running.  However, still no login message comes up on the terminal.

Getty can be a real pig - just stick a login straight on the port.
Solves all the autobauding problems.  I use:

100
0f1
1f2

to use com1 for dialout and com2 for dialin.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com


