Re: Serial console setup

2016-12-24 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 08:36:47PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Note that there are two separate issues with modem control. One is > rts/cts. Probably that is not your problem if text is being output. > The other is that traditionally, the open from getty on the device did > not succeed until t

Re: Serial console setup

2016-12-24 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 01:50:04PM +, Michael van Elst wrote: > g...@gson.org (Andreas Gustafsson) writes: > > >j...@sdf.org wrote: > >> Also, I was looking through the mlist archives and saw mention that > >> /dev/console was suppose to be replaced by /dev/constty ? Maybe that's > >> the iss

Re: Serial console setup

2016-12-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 24 Dec 2016, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > BTW Later Bill Jollitz back at UCB was author of BSD386 free software > & articles published in a USA mag. (possibly Byte?) later translated Dr. Dobb's http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/porting-unix-to-the-386-missing-pieces-p/184408764