On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, brd wrote:
> Yeah, I discovered that later last night in the man pages for mingetty.
> Felt kinda dumb.
>
> Anyway, I'm trying to just establish if I can get the newton
> to talk to my linux box at all before I start worrying
> about ppp or gettys. So, I built the newton-pc cable from:
> http://www.nsbasic.com/newton/info/technotes/cable.html
> and hooked it up to com1.
>
> I fire up pt100 for a direct serial connection at 115200 8n1 and set up
> minicom to do the same thing, both on ttyS0. Neither of them sends text to
> the other.
Another dumb thing - is the getty running while you try to do this? It
may not allow minicom to access the serial port.
> Shouldn't this work? Am I missing something? likewise, with pt100
> connected to ttyS0, I try to 'cat /etc/hosts > /dev/ttyS0' from the linux
> box, but never see anything on the newton.
Um, yeah, it should work. Hrm. I'm fresh out of ideas.
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