Hello Dave , after rebooting with the inittab co entry pointing
at ttyS0 the login prompts passwd entry is not picking up the
Shifted chars , I suspect . I'll try something odd , I'll try
sending the chars accross thru kermits 'transmit' command & see
if I can gain entry that way . Let you know in a few . JimL
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> Hello Dave, using Joshua's approach . I have changed the
> entry in /etc/inittab to /dev/ttyS0 only I pulled a boo-boo
> and entered it just like above ... So I booted into single
> user mode & Viola ^c works here . ?-) I also editted the
> entry in inittab to be correct again . Hth , JimL
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Joshua Uziel wrote:
> > * David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000404 18:10]:
> > > It's probably the same problem. It may even be an issue of
> > > job control and sessions in the kernel wrt. serial as a console.
> > > Can you perform a few experiments for me?
> > > Please experiment with stty and try different settings for
> > > the interrupt and suspend characters, does using other
> > > characters make it work?
> > Dave, I've already done some work on trying to figure it out
> > since I've noticed that serial consoles work fine with Debian.
> > Part of the difference is that they use agetty instead of
> > getty_ps ... I think they also use /dev/ttyS0 instead of
> > /dev/console. I've found that if you change the /etc/inittab
> > entry to point to /dev/ttyS0 instead of /dev/console, you have
> > better results...
> > ... it just seems like there's a problem with getty_ps using
> > the /dev/console device for some reason... so it could be a
> > console device kernel bug or a bug with getty_ps ... and I've
> > filed a bug already... see:
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9948
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