Hiya, My work was chucking out an IBM serial console (infowindow II 3153), so I grabbed it to see if I could get it working with my boxes.
a) Using my Sun Blade 100 the console works fine. As you probably know, most sun machines set the default console to the serial line (vt100 9600 8N1) if no keyboard is present. This is probably a good indication that the console is properly set up for vt100 emulation (?). b) If I plug in to my i386 -current box and modify /etc/ttys to run a getty on /dev/tty00 for vt100, nothing happens on the console. If I set the device to /dev/cua00 I get a half arsed terminal. Passwords echo and theres no controlling tty so the shell is severely crippled. Apps like vi and top simply will not run. I have seen similar problems by searching google/lists, but none have solved the issue. I have seen someone solve the issue by adding "softcar" onto the end of the ttys line, but alas this did not help. Can enyone enlighten me? Best Regards Edd
