Ok, why do you need this stuff in order for your ports to work with dosemu? Greg On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:17:17PM -0500, TALMAGE at SOMTEL.COM wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure what you have, or haven't, tried to get your serial port > working, but you should have a line similar to one of the following in your > /etc/inittab > file. My examples are for RedHat, but other distributions should be similar. > In older RedHat versions, i.e. 5.2 > S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 DT9600 VT100 > or in RedHat 7.2 > S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttyS1 DT9600 VT100 > > S1 is a label to refer to the serial port, i.e. ttyS1 or in MS-DOS terms > com2. > 2345 refer to the run levels effected. > In RedHat 7.2 I couldn't find getty and mingetty seems to be the default. > The ttyS1 indicates which serial port is concerned, and associated with the > S1 label. > The Dt9600 sets the port speed. > The VT100 is not necessary, but in my case indicates that a vt100 type > terminal is connected. > > If you are going to have a terminal of some sort connected you will > probably need a > ttyS1 > line at the end of your > /etc/securetty > file. > > If you had to add any of the above lines try: > /sbin/init q > to have the system reread your inittab file. > > You should probably verify the location of the files I've mentioned above > regardless of the distribution you are running. They are: inittab, > securetty, getty or mingetty, and init. > > Hope this helps and isn't just repetition of what you already know. > > Dave > > At 01:57 PM 3/20/02 -0600, you wrote: > >I've tried this on two other lists so far and nobody seems to have answers > for > >me; hope somebody here can help. As I have it at least partly up and running, > >I'd especially like input from anybody who got their serial ports to work. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
