Subject: Re: serial ports and my IIci
To: Wolf Dieter Brandt <brandt@physik3.gwdg.de>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/09/1996 09:51:09
> Hi !
> 
> I have installed netbsd 1.1 and the latest kernel from 
> 
> ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/~wormey/netbsd/kernels/netbsd.GENERIC_50.tar.gz.
> 
> I have activated the serial line in /etc/ttys (9600 baud), have connected my IIci with my
> Q650/MacOS 7.5.x with a original apple printer cable. I use Zterm on the Quadra,
> (Terminal settings: 9600 baud 8N1). Now I see something like the login prompt. Some
> characters are translated/displayed correctly, OTHERS NOT? I can log in, use all the
> system commands (more or less blind). I can follow my remote actions on the IIci console.
> What is wrong? Any suggestions?
> Thanks in advance,

(In the future, please wrap your lines at about 75 or 72 characters so
they look better when included in replies. Thanks)

Try typing "stty sane" after logging in. Just before 1.1 finalized, there
were some bugs added to the tty section of the kernel. I think they've
been weeded out, but I'm not sure. Another part of this problem (which
I mention for the sake of thers; you sound unaffected) is that on serial
console boot you might have to type ^J instead of return to end lines.
stty sane fixes this too.

Good luck!

Bill