serial port, terminal, login

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Hello
I’m still rather new to QNX, but here is my question.

Can anyone out there give me step by step instructions on how to get my PC
(and hyperterminal) to connect to my QNX 6.2 machine using a serial cable
and have a login prompt appear?

Any help would be great.
John Van

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Assuming QNX has found your serial port OK and created an entry in /dev/ for
it (e.g. /dev/ser1), then all you need to do is to add a line to
/etc/config/ttys like

ser1 “/bin/login” qansi-m on

Then reboot (or slay and re-start tinit). See the manual page for ‘tinit’
for more details.

You may also need to change the baud rate (etc) of the serial port to match
your PC. Use the stty command to do this (e.g. “stty 38400 </dev/ser1”).

Rob Rutherford

“John Van” <john@storagequest.com> wrote in message
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Hello
I’m still rather new to QNX, but here is my question.

Can anyone out there give me step by step instructions on how to get my PC
(and hyperterminal) to connect to my QNX 6.2 machine using a serial cable
and have a login prompt appear?

Any help would be great.
John Van

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Note also that if you’re booting directly into photon, you’ll have to exit
to text mode before this will work. ie, the logic in tinit is:

if booting photon then
run photon and wait
initialize ttys

cheers,

Kris

“Robert Rutherford” <ruzz@NoSpamPlease.ruzz.com> wrote in message
news:ajf6da$c3u$1@inn.qnx.com…

Assuming QNX has found your serial port OK and created an entry in /dev/
for
it (e.g. /dev/ser1), then all you need to do is to add a line to
/etc/config/ttys like

ser1 “/bin/login” qansi-m on

Then reboot (or slay and re-start tinit). See the manual page for ‘tinit’
for more details.

You may also need to change the baud rate (etc) of the serial port to
match
your PC. Use the stty command to do this (e.g. “stty 38400 </dev/ser1”).

Rob Rutherford

“John Van” <> john@storagequest.com> > wrote in message
news:ajefl0$q32$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Hello
I’m still rather new to QNX, but here is my question.

Can anyone out there give me step by step instructions on how to get my
PC
(and hyperterminal) to connect to my QNX 6.2 machine using a serial
cable
and have a login prompt appear?

Any help would be great.
John Van

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