Hello everybody, I would like to thank everyone for thier help. After several days of learning and frustration I've re-shifted my goals.
Instead of controlling the leaf through the serial port I am going to control it via SSH. Which I am going to do last. My new main priority is setting up pppd so I can assign an IP to a comptuer through the com port. I am using a null-modem cable. The package of the cable says: "This cable can be used as an Interlink/Laplink cable, or with the Windows95 Direct Cable Connection software program. This cable has a crossed 'null-modem' wiring design." On both ends it has both a serial and parallel port connector (DB9 and DB25). It's a Belkin F3X171-10 or 127202, I don't which one is relevant. I'm using the latest Dachstein release. Haven't gotten around to adding pci-scan.o to a eiger/bearing (why in the world was that taken out? Can anybody use PCI cards without pci-scan?) In an attempt to make sure the serial port was installed I found serial.o, copied it to the /lib/modules directory, put it in a line in the /etc/modules and rebooted. At the this point I when I issue echo "hello" > /dev/ttyS0 command I still get the error cannot create /dev/ttyS0: error 19 I was trying to follow the instructions in this file: http://www.bogor.net/idkf/linux-heboh/September%202001/LRP/PPPSERV.TXT While the command echo "hello" > /dev/ttyS00 doesn't give any error messages although I have no idea if that actually tells me anything. I also downloaded and copied over slhc.o and ppp.o, added them to the modules file, slhc then ppp, then serial. I have also added mgetty.lrp and pppd.lrp to my floppy, ready to be added to the end of the LRP= line in the syslinux.cfg file. It appears the ppp.o file does actually load because I now have a new option in the lrcfg to configure it. I made the mistake of trying to edit out a few lines having to with modem init since there is no modem. And finally in my /etc/inittab my "modem line" line looks like this: T3:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x0 -s 9600 ttyS0 One more note: I'm assuming I should be on com1 because this leaf only has one com port to begin with. So it makes sense to assume it's ttyS0, right? I've also tried the echo line with ttyS1/2/3/4/5 by the way. Same error 19. And now every 5 minutes I get the familiar error message: INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mgetty" (repeats about 12 times) with a last line reading: INIT: Id "T3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. A few references: http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/PPP-HOWTO/direct.html http://www.bogor.net/idkf/linux-heboh/September%202001/LRP/PPPSERV.TXT So to sum up exactly what I want to do: I want my leaf to assign an IP address to to a computer over a serial port. This computer will be running either linux or NT 4. I'm telling you I've been searching and working on this for a long time now including lots of googling (I'm trying to avoid the typical "do a google" responses). At this point a simply paste of the lines from the relevant files would be fine. I find most or all of the how-tos either grossly outdated, simply inaccurate, or assuming too much knowledge already. Thank you for your time, -keith ===== 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:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://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
