terminal on RS6000

[Patrick Torre]

zdenko at mbpt.rice.edu (zdenko tomasic) writes:

>We are running 3.1 AIX on model 530 and cannot get terminal to work
>on s1 serial port. The smit entries seem to be correctly set (enable,
>9600 bps, 8 bits, 1 stop etc.). Getty is running, yet there is no
>login prompt and /etc/security/users and /etc/security/login.cfg
>look reasonable. The most I got was echo of the stuff typed at the
>terminal, but no action. When I tried to echo "hello" >/dev/tty0
>as root, nothing came to terminal and command never returned.
>At the interupt (^C), there was message(from ksh or /bin/echo)
>that /dev/tty0 could not be created.
>The /dev/tty0 is alredy there and I tried to delete it and recreate
>it through smit.  The behavior did not change.  Am I missing
>something or is it a well known problem with 3.1 drivers?
>tnx.
>--

try using a null modem.


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