Hello,
I've tried connecting two different terminals to the serial port on my
hamm box. One was an old pc with terminal emulator software, the other
is a genuine Digital VT100. Both hang at the login prompt.
I ran 'getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100' most recently for the VT100. I got
the login prompt, but when I typed my username, there was no response
on the screen. I have also setup /etc/inittab to run getty and do get
the login prompt on the VT100 when the hamm box boots.
When I did 'man getty' I got the man page for 'agetty'. It indicated
that the '-L' switch should be used if the terminal hangs at the login
prompt. I did 'find / -name "agetty*"' and no files were found. I
looked up both getty and agetty in 'Linux in a Nutshell' and found
that '-L' only works for agetty and not getty. I searched
/stable/main/packages for 'agetty' and couldn't find it.
Q1: Where can I find 'agetty'?
Q2: Is it possible my manpage and executable are mis-matched?
Q3: Is there something that I'm overlooking in trying to connect
a serial terminal?
Thanks,
--David
