Subject: Re: Problems with serial interfaces
To: Lorenzo Cavassa <Lorenzo.Cavassa@ALPcom.IT>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/07/1999 17:04:04
No amount of our advice will help as much as a $10 RS-232 breakout
box. I suggest getting one.

Perry

Lorenzo Cavassa <Lorenzo.Cavassa@ALPcom.IT> writes:
> i'm running NetBSD 1.4 on a SS2.
> I tried to link my laptop running a VT100 terminal emulator to the serial
> interfaces, ttya and ttyb, where i run getty.
> I used a serial cable that comes with Cisco routers, i think is a null-modem
> cable, but i can't receive the login prompt.
> 
> How must i set getty/gettytab/PROM flags and what kind of cable and
> connectors must i use?


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