Re: [ILUG] more serial, stuff...

From: Colm Buckley (colm at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Tue 04 May 1999 - 16:19:41 IST


Kate writes:

> Right. I've since copped on that using mingetty is a Bad Thing. I'm
> using mgetty for managing logins on the serial port. /etc/inittab is
> now saying:
> [...]
> When I try and login, all is OK, until I try to enter the password -
> nothing happens after I hit enter after the username is put in. Any
> ideas ?

Hm. I think this is basically a stty issue, and I imagine it's
something to do with mgetty trying to use modem flow control. I use
agetty, which has a "-L" flag - use 'local' flow control rather than
'modem' flow control - my inittab has:

T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 115200 ttyS1

I imagine mgetty has something similar.

          Colm

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