At 09:55 AM 7/6/99 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote [in part]:
>>From what I know, all you have to do is hardware connect it, then add a
>line to /etc/inittab that says, "Hey, there's a terminal on port
>yaadayaada". My problem is that I'm lacking the hardware part!! :)
Basically right. But a bit more in the way of details:
1. You connect it to a serial port. The serial port should have its own IRQ,
not share one (unless it's on a multilport serial card that knows how to
share an IRQ at the hardware level). Regular 2-port serial cards will do,
especially if you can find the ones that can be set for IRQs other than 3 or
4 (I've seen them, but I don't know how common they are).
2. You add a line to /etc/inittab that is similar to the ones that create
the consoles. An example from my (Slackware) system is:
s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS0 vt100
3. You force init to reread inittab ("init q").
Michael ... as to multiport cards. Linux supports up-to-date ones like
Cyclades and Rocketport, but they are probably too expensive for your
purposes. Years ago, I used a BocaBoard 16 to connect a bank of modems to a
Linux terminal server. This card is obsolete, but if you can find a used one
cheap, it will serve your needs.
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