help with dosemu; getting very frustrated

[Gregory Nowak]

Ok, why do you need this stuff in order for your ports to work with dosemu?
Greg


On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:17:17PM -0500, TALMAGE at SOMTEL.COM wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure what you have, or haven't, tried to get your serial port
> working, but you should have a line similar to one of the following in your
> /etc/inittab
> file.  My examples are for RedHat, but other distributions should be similar.
> In older RedHat versions, i.e. 5.2
> S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 DT9600 VT100
> or in RedHat 7.2
> S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttyS1 DT9600 VT100
> 
> S1 is a label to  refer to the serial port, i.e. ttyS1 or in MS-DOS terms
> com2. 
> 2345 refer to the run levels effected.
> In RedHat 7.2 I couldn't find getty and mingetty seems to be the default.
> The ttyS1 indicates which serial port is concerned, and associated with the
> S1 label.
> The Dt9600 sets the port speed.
> The VT100 is not necessary, but in my case indicates that a vt100 type
> terminal is connected.
> 
> If you are going to have a terminal of some sort connected you will
> probably need a
> ttyS1
> line at the end of your
> /etc/securetty
> file.
> 
> If you had to add any of the above lines try:
> /sbin/init q
> to have the system reread your inittab file.
> 
> You should probably verify the location of the files I've mentioned above
> regardless of the distribution you are running.  They are: inittab,
> securetty, getty or mingetty, and init.
> 
> Hope this helps and isn't just repetition of what you already know.
> 
> Dave
> 
> At 01:57 PM 3/20/02 -0600, you wrote:
> >I've tried this on two other lists so far and nobody seems to have answers
> for
> >me; hope somebody here can help. As I have it at least partly up and running,
> >I'd especially like input from anybody who got their serial ports to work.
> 
> 
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