On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 6:26 AM Crystal Kolipe <kolip...@exoticsilicon.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 01:35:39PM -0400, Morgan Aldridge wrote:
> > On the terminal, keeping the same 9600 8N1 settings, but enabling local
> > echo, and shorting the TX/RX pins gets me duplicated input with no odd
> > characters or breaks (AFAICT).
> >
> > On the OpenBSD side (with getty disabled on the tty, of course), I ran
> `cu
> > dr -l ttyU1 -s 9600` and jumped the TX/RX pins, and confirmed that the
> > characters entered were received back without any breaks or odd
> characters
> > (though there's no local echo.) I confirmed that cu(1) is just not
> echoing
> > locally by un-jumping the TX/RX pins and seeing that I did _not_ receive
> > the characters entered.
>
> OK, so the hardware is essentially working, that's good.
>
> Could you confirm exactly what you meant when you said:
>
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 11:37:10PM -0400, Morgan Aldridge wrote:
> > Unfortunately, regardless of what input is provided on the
> > terminal, getty(8) just sends a new login prompt.
>
> Do you mean that:
>
> 1. Any single keypress triggers a new login prompt, (as if you were
> pressing
>    enter each time).
>
> or
>
> 2. You can successfully enter a username, which is echoed back but then
>    pressing enter the system just presents you with another login prompt
>    instead of accepting the username and asking for a password.
>
> I assumed it was '1', but just want to check before going any further.
>

Yes, your assumption was correct, every keypress acts as if I had pressed
enter. Thanks for confirming!

Morgan

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