Subject: Idiots guide to serial ports.
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Ceri Storey <cez@necrofish.org.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/17/2002 22:35:07
Hi, I'm attempting to setup a serial console on an old machine, but I
can't figure out where I'm going wrong. I've got the following in
/etc/ttys: 
tty00   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   unknown on secure rtscts
tty01   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   unknown on secure rtscts

The problem being that the gettys get stuck in 'ttyopn', and never seem
to come out of it. 

I'm fairly sure the hardware side of things is fine, scince the two
sides can communicate using 'cu -l /dev/dty0x'.

Any input would be apprechiated.
-- 
Ceri Storey <cez@compsoc.man.ac.uk>