>I've been trying without success to talk to the serial ports on my
>SE/30...well, actually, to enable logins via them, but any kind of
>communication would be great to start.  I connected a 2400 bps modem up
>to it, to see what would happen, and all that happened was that the
>lights on the modem flashed incessantly for about five minutes, then the
>system complained "invalid login" from that port, and the lights stopped
>flashing. I have no way of finding out what happened there, because when
>I tried connecting a computer to the port and setting it to the same
>settings (2400 bps, N81 and XON-XOFF flow control) I didn't receive
>anything.  Should I be able to address the serial ports or not?

Yes, at 9600 8N1.
Your /etc/ttys should state:
tty00   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   unknown off secure
                                                ^^^ could be on, i'm not sure ;)
                                ^^^^that you can change for dif. speeds
modem port is tty00
printer port is tty01
(XON-XOFF flow control: that's only local for that other computer)

grtngs
noud


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