From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 03:45:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FBBD16A47B for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:45:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from E5739C@motorola.com) Received: from mail128.messagelabs.com (mail128.messagelabs.com [216.82.250.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73CB643D49 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:45:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from E5739C@motorola.com) X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: E5739C@motorola.com X-Msg-Ref: server-9.tower-128.messagelabs.com!1160538319!2089031!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.10.7; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [129.188.136.8] Received: (qmail 22810 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2006 03:45:19 -0000 Received: from motgate8.mot.com (HELO motgate8.mot.com) (129.188.136.8) by server-9.tower-128.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 11 Oct 2006 03:45:19 -0000 Received: from il06exr03.mot.com (il06exr03.mot.com [129.188.137.133]) by motgate8.mot.com (8.12.11/Motorola) with ESMTP id k9B3jJ8O001698 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:45:19 -0700 (MST) Received: from zmy16exm63.ds.mot.com (zmy16exm63.ap.mot.com [10.179.4.34]) by il06exr03.mot.com (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k9B3jHqH012644 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:45:18 -0500 (CDT) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:45:16 +0800 Message-ID: <565F40B9893580489B94B8D324460AF4DA16A6@zmy16exm63.ds.mot.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: How to connects to Linux machine via null-modem cable and cu command? thread-index: Acbs56os2eyqKOSuTy+HMGHiyuZpPg== From: "Sun Zongjun-E5739C" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: How to connects to Linux machine via null-modem cable and cu command? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:45:21 -0000 HI, all =20 I am a newbie to FreeBSD. I want to connect one my pc running FreeBSD 6.1 to another PC running Fedora core 5 via a null modem cable. =20 I can login the PC running the Fedora Core 5 from PC running Windows via one NULL modem cable. =20 When I connect the two serial ports of two pc, one running FreeBSD6.1 and the other is FC5 which acts a server.=20 =20 I run the command on device running FreeBSD 6.1 =20 Test# cu -l /dev/cuad0=20 Connected =20 There is no response on the FreeBSD except the "Connected" string. Such string can occur even there is no cable available. =20 What happens to cu command on FreeBSD? =20 Thanks for your kind support. =20 Thanks Regards Zongjun =20