Thank you for your help. Now I've kinda got off on a tangent trying to control my LEAF through a terminal that's connected via the null modem cable. I've been trying to connect to the LEAF (which I should mention is the latest standard Dachstien distro) through my WindowsXP computer using HyperTerminal which I would think would work.
I'm actually trying to remote control it like this because the other computer (that doesn't do NICs) has a defective video card so I would take out the video card in the LEAF and put it in the other one if I could HyperTerminal into it. I've searched your archives and found a little bit of useful information but a couple things are confusing to me. For one in this how-to I found (http://leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/doc/howto/LRP-Serial-HOWTO.txt) the instructions say to test connection first issue the command echo "hello world" > /dev/ttyS0 which gave an error saying something about "cannot create" and error 19. But if I do the same command only like this: echo "hello world" > /dev/ttyS00 (or 01) I don't get any error messages. Of course the command doesn't show up on the hyper terminal screen either. Now why in world would this make a difference? Am I really the first one to run into this? My other question is about this line: #T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 19200 vt100 As per the mail archive messages I also was getting message about respawning too fast. I figured 23 must have something to do with time increment and since numbers having to do with time always have 100 being one second I changed 23 to higher number which fixed the error message thing at least. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Or even just a few keywords to search for since I can't seemt to find any how-tos that are detailed enough. I don't know linux that well and many how-tos seems to make assumptions on current knowledge. Thank you for your time bye keith --- Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kache wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This is a weird request but here-goes. I want to > setup > > this really old computer I have as a seperate > server > > and various other things but there's one minor > > problem. This old computer has some sort of NIC > > allergy (the NICs simply don't work). I would like > to > > have this computer get an assigned IP via the DHCP > > server through the null modem cable connected to > the > > LEAF. I haven't actually tried this yet. I want to > > know if such a thing is even possible before > > attempting it. And yes I tried searching the > archives > > but couldn't really find anything on this. Unless > I > > searched the wrong terms. > > I doubt you can get DHCP working across a null modem > connector, but all > is not lost. > > You should be able to install PPP on both systems, > and get your old > server networked via PPP (which can be setup to > automatically assign an > IP address, so you don't need dhcp anyway). PPP is > designed to network > computers together over a serial link, which is what > it sounds like > you're trying to do. > > There are various howto's for the client (your old > server) side and the > server (the LEAF box) side of PPP, and I'm sure > someone on the list can > help if you run into specific problems. Once you > get a proper PPP link > setup, your old server will be networking just like > it was connected via > ethernet (only slower :). > > Good luck! > > -- > Charles Steinkuehler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ===== LiteStep Log: http://come.to/litesteplog/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Geek Gift Procrastinating? Get the perfect geek gift now! Before the Holidays pass you by. T H I N K G E E K . C O M http://www.thinkgeek.com/sf/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
