Keith, The most likely cause of the "respawn message is not having the serial module in the kernel. I use Hyper terminal all the time just as you describe. I started with it in Dachsein and now in Bering. On my system I also find that Hyperteminal must Flow Control must be set to "None".
My inittab entry is: T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100 Add this to /etc/securetty ttyS0 If you want to see boot messages in Hyperterminal, Syslinux.cfg should look like this: serial 0 115200 display syslinux.dpy timeout 0 append console=ttyS0,115200 default lin.....<SNIPPED, Not relevant> If the hardware works this should do it. Kory Krofft Kache wrote: > > 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. 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