On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 19:34 +0200, SoNicX wrote:
> hello,
> i have wired myself a nullmodemcable to connect a small machine to my
> centos-ltsp-and-so-on-server. using agetty i can login fine, just a few
> garbage chars here and there but working is ok. now this isnt what i wanted,
> so i disabled agetty, made a line in syslog.conf like
> *.* /dev/ttyS0
> and made the system produce a lockfile after syslog is started to lock that
> serial port. now data reaches my minicom using terminal emulator, but its
> garbage, looking like this:
> ...x.x.x@..x.x.
> and so on. if i do
> echo "somechar" > /dev/ttyS0
> its the same garbage. im sure this is a quite simple thing, but i dont get it
> to work. do i need another terminal prog if i try to send plaintext with
> syslog (as it seems to me clueless as i am). do i need to manipulate syslog
> output somehow? i tried to fiddle around with setserial but the port should
> work, as they to with agetty. i hope someone on this list has experience with
> this, doenst seem to be too popular.
You need to set the speed and parity to match at both ends on the
serial port. Agetty probably cycled through some speeds to match up
or had a config file. Stty will show/change the settings but I think
they revert to defaults on the last close.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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