From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 19 21:32:31 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA01862 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:32:31 -0800 Received: from news.iadfw.net (jbryant@news.iadfw.net [204.178.72.99]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA01856 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:32:27 -0800 Received: from localhost (jbryant@localhost) by news.iadfw.net (8.6.5/8.6.6) id XAA11884; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 23:32:03 -0600 From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199503200532.XAA11884@news.iadfw.net> Subject: Re: Serial cable between 2 FreeBSD boxes To: geoff@neptune.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 23:32:02 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Geoff Rehmet" at Mar 19, 95 06:13:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1402 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > From: geoff@neptune.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) > Subject: Serial cable between 2 FreeBSD boxes > To: questions@FreeBSD.org > Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 18:13:58 +0200 (SAT) > > Hi, > > I am trying to run a serial cable (7 wire) between a 1.1.5.1 (patch 22) > box and a 2.1D (950210 SNAP) system. This is just giving me a bit of > trouble, as I don't seem to have got the flags on my serial ports > right, and nothing is getting through. > > What I want to do is get a getty going on the 2.1 machine (a friend's > 486 which I am borrowing for a short while), and my 386, which is > still running 1.1.5.1. > > Help Please! > (BTW: I'm still not back on most of the mailing lists due to problems > with my UUCP feed, so please reply to me directly.) > > Thanks, > Geoff. > > BTW: It's great to be back getting going with FreeBSD 2 again! Give mgetty+sendfax a try. handles direct serial, modems, fax, and voicemail. Also can route the login to the proper places [uucp, fido, login, whatever]. getty is fine for the console, but I find this to be much better for everything else. Jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@server.iadfw.net, System administrator, Internet America