Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 23:59:46 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: David Preece <dmpreece@paradise.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot get dumb terminal to go. Message-ID: <20000306235946.G70609@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <LPBBLADKJEHMAEPEFIKPGEFCCDAA.dmpreece@paradise.net.nz>; from dmpreece@paradise.net.nz on Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:12:02PM %2B1300 References: <LPBBLADKJEHMAEPEFIKPGEFCCDAA.dmpreece@paradise.net.nz>
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On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:12:02PM +1300, David Preece wrote: > GGNNN! Much gnashing of teeth here. > > The terminal in question (actually a Psion 5 emulating a VT100) is > hooked into sio0. Changing boot.config to be '-h' sends output to the > terminal, so I know it works. I've left all the settings at 9.6kbit > (8/1/no parity) and am currently trying with "RTS/CTS" and DCD is set. > > I've changed the line in /etc/ttys to be: > > ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure [snip] It's really strange that the boot messages work (the hard part), but you can't get a console on the terminal (the easy part). I've gotten this to work on several machines, but it always seemed to take some tweaking. My only real advice is that I always use vt220 emulation. That seemed to work best. I can't seem to find what emulation (if any) is used to do the boot info since that works for you. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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