Brian your response was much appreciated.  I am still having a problem with
my Pi. I got it working at home but then I took it to the office and
plugged it in but I thought I would be able to change the wifi from the
terminal connection. No joy.  I guess I need to change the wpa supplicant
file at home.  When I got to the office, the M100 can log into the Pi but I
get a bash error with every command, even something simple like "ls".

On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 9:43 AM Brian Brindle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> I totally missed that you actually had your console working, sorry the
> systemd changes make me blind with rage.
>
> If you are primarily using BBSes X-modem works pretty well, if you have an
> X-Modem capable term on your M100. You can also send files to/from the M100
> via the Linux command line with the sx (send x-modem) command.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 8:15 AM Bill Miranda <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you so much! Embarrassingly I discovered my problem was that that I
>> had to go into raspi-config and designate my country so the WiFi would
>> work.  The packages I was trying to install on my raspberry pi weren’t
>> installing because no internet.  Once I got that sorted and made a couple
>> changes to configure I was good to go and successfully contacted a BBS with
>> the setup.  Now I need to sort out out to exchange files.  Thanks again for
>> your response.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bill Miranda
>> [email protected]
>>
>> On Jul 12, 2021, at 6:18 AM, Brian Brindle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> HI Bill,
>>
>> The divergence from systemd is frustrating but at last current versions
>> of Raspian still have ifconfig...
>>
>> I'm using Raspian 10 here are my quick and dirty hints:
>>
>> Get your termcap sorted:
>> https://zork.net/~octal/mod100.xhtml
>>
>> You will note that termcap doesn't exist like it should though, so save
>> the cap to a file and install it like so:
>>
>> tic <termcap-file>
>>
>>  I assume you are going to to the easy route and use a USB to serial
>> adapter. You can use the onboard UART with some level conversion as I have
>> done, but you have to get creative with the hardware. Check out the photos
>> of my M100 hooked to my pi zero here:  http://niedobry.com/mod100/tanpi/
>>
>> Copy the template file */lib/systemd/system/**[email protected]* to*
>> /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]    *(Provided you are
>> using ttyUSB0)
>>
>> In [Service] modify the ExecStart line to say the following: (Adjust your
>> baud as you like.)
>> ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -o '-p -- \\u' 19200 %I trs100
>>
>> Issue *systemctl enable [email protected]*
>>
>> Do a ps -ax  | grep getty and you should now see a getty process running
>> on the USB port.
>>
>> Connect your Model-T with a null modem cable to the serial port, set your
>> TERM to STAT 98N1E and you should be good to go. Lots and lots of
>> customization needed for it to be useful, I'm working on getting my notes
>> together on this and hope to have it somewhere for reference soon.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 11:09 PM Bill Miranda <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone point me to current instructions on how to configure a
>>> Raspberry Pi so that I can connect my M100 as a serial console? I found
>>> numerous websites with instructions for older versions of Raspian which
>>> were pre-systemd.  I was able to get the M100 to connect to the Pi after a
>>> lot of experimenting but I once I login I can’t get anything to work.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Bill Miranda
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>

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