On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 02:14:02PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote:
Hi!
I would like to connect to a FreeBSD box from Woody using a null modem
cable. The FreeBSD box is already set up properly (a getty is running on
one of the serial ports). The serial cable is connected to ttyS1 on my
Debian box. I tried to set things up using minicom -s:
1. I entered the serial port the cable is connected to (on my Debian box):
/dev/ttyS1
2. I set the modem init string to the empty string.
Do I need any other software package besides minicom on my Debian box? Is
there some article/howto explaining null modem cable setups in greater
detail? (I was looking at the serial port console howto, but this one
covers only the pin layout for null modem cables. Besides, this howto
mostly deals with redirecting *boot* messages to the serial console, which
is not what I'm interested in.)
You could also set up slip (serial line IP) networking between the two
computers over the serial port using slattach (in the net-tools
package). See the Net-HOWTO for details. This typically is limited to
~115 kbps data transfers. You could then use telnet, ssh, ftp, etc.
A pair of cheap NICS and a crossover cable will offer better
performance, however.
Bob
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