This will probably be no help at all, but I'll chime in anyway. I
successfully hooked my palmIII to a couple of different Linux platforms
and ran ptelnet on the palm. After the connection was working, I fired
up emacs from the palm! What a mindboggling experience!
My recollection is a bit foggy. Most of my problems hovered around
the wiring of the palm to the serial port. At least for my embedded
system, the key was looping CTS/RTS on the palm side (had to build a
special cable for this device). When the wiring was wrong,
then with the "on" button activated in ptelnet, issuing the return
character ("/") would cause the ptelnet's blinking cursor to disappear for
a several seconds with nothing appearing on the screen.
On the Unix side, I really didn't have to do anything. The ttyS1 was
already configured in /etc/inittab to accept terminal connections.
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, David Terebessy wrote:
> "Eric J. Schwertfeger" wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Hans Lambermont wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> Even after help from many subscribers I am still having trouble connecting my
> palm professional to a sun ultra1.
> I have the serial cable connected to serial A on the sun and I am running the
> vt100 program. I can cat /etc/hosts to /dev/term/a.
Me too. I can also
cat < /dev/term/a
and type stuff into the palm, hit "/" and the output will appear in the
xterm.
Ok. Here is the beginning of a solution. Replace the following line
co:234:respawn:/usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -h -p "`uname -n` console login:" -T sun -d
/dev/console -l console -m ldterm,ttcompat
with
co:234:respawn:/usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -h -p "`uname -n` login: " -T sun -d /dev/term/a
-l 9600 -m ldterm,ttcompat
in the file inittab. Then kill the process associated with the above
command (use /usr/ucb/ps auxww | grep ttymon to find it). Then the ttymon
process will respawn with the new options. In my config, I use
-T "vt100-pilot" instead. The terminal looks a little better this way.
I have found that the best way to config the term is with the stty
command. Below is the script I use.
This not a permanent fix. Check the man pages for pmadm and ttyadm.
Perhaps these will help.
Jeff
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cat set_term.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo 'Select Terminal:
def) palm 16x32 (std font)
1) palm 16x64 (std font)
2) palm 24x40 (small font)
3) palm 24x80 (small font)
4) other'
read term_type
case $term_type in ('' | 1 | 2 | 3)
stty sane
stty erase ^H
case $term_type in ('') stty rows 16 cols 32; esac
case $term_type in (1) stty rows 16 cols 64; esac
case $term_type in (2) stty rows 24 cols 40; esac
case $term_type in (3) stty rows 24 cols 80; esac
esac
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