Just get a standard run of the mill serial cable and a null modem adaptor,
or a null modem cable. The connect it to a serial port on tha back of the
*nix box. Turn on the terminal and press CTRL+Scroll lock to access it's
menu. You should set up the emulation, the hardware handshaking, and the
baud rate. Fast as it will go is good. Then you will need to set up the
getty entry for that serial port in whatever file that is in Linux
(inittab?). A reboot will prolly be needed, then turn on the terminal,
press enter, aand it should work unless the setup is very different from
BSD. You will probably be playing with the emulation and other settings for
a week before they are how you want them...
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Ralph Zeller
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:52 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [EUG-LUG:211] RE: Dumb terminal setup
>
>
> Oops, I was intending the question for Timothy Bolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> but anyway, the terminal is an ADDS. I think it connects to a serial
> port using pins 2,3,7, and 20. I hooked up a terminal to a
> minicomputer
> once before, in about 1985, but it didn't seem too hard at the time.
>
> At 09:12 AM 1/5/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >Also, tell me which type you have. Is it a 4000/160 ADDS, or a Wyse?
> >
> >Tim
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> >> Ralph Zeller
> >> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:03 AM
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Subject: [EUG-LUG:201] Dumb terminal setup
> >>
> >>
> >> Tim,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to set up one of those dumb terminals. Rather
> than going
> >> to the trouble of RTFM, could you send me a copy of your
> /etc/inittab
> >> or the results of running this command at a bash prompt:
> >>
> >> cat /etc/inittab |grep ttyS
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Ralph
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
