From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 5 23:47:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 593B337B6D2 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 23:47:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e366kwm13276; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 08:47:02 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <38EC1C4F.4CE964EF@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 08:46:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Doug Barton Subject: Re: Null modem cable between two FreeBSD Boxes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, joeo@cracktown.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm having a great deal of difficulty getting two 4.0 boxes to talk over a > null modem cable. The serial ports on these boxes are known good, they > can drive modems just fine, the cable is also known good, I've used it > between two Ultra 5's in the recent past. The baud rates are the same. > I've visited the handbook, the FAQ, and the mailling list archinves, the > instructions there are the same as I remember them. I've had this > configuration working between two 3.0 boxes in the past. I don't remember > it being this difficult. > > Are there now some magic "stty" settings needed when using one freebsd box > as a serial terminal plugged into another freebsd box? Is it that you cannot get a Login: prompt? In which case the appropriate /dev/ttyd? might be off in /etc/ttys. If you are using minicom in this case, it expects a modem so you'll have to short pins 4 and 8 (assuming DB25) on the box you are trying to send from, to fool it. ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.4 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message