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Old 07-16-2006, 01:05 AM   #1
deathazre
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Using Serial Port to connect to server


Hey guys. The problem is myself, of course. I'm trying to communicate bi-directionally through ttyS0. I have tried agetty, but I get messages like 'pam: Invalid user"<server output>"'

By using:
stty 115200
cat ttyS0

I can see all the server output, up until it waits for input from me. This is where the rut lies, using this method is one-way communication. By using agetty or mgetty, it seems like the programs are creating a login prompt with the serial port. Upon receiving data from the server, these programs quit.

The goal here is to have two-way communication without any login, somewhat a simple direct terminal to the serial port.

Thanks in advance.
 
Old 07-16-2006, 01:44 AM   #2
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you should add the agetty commands to /etc/inittab to make it respawn, i set this up recently and didn't get anything actually functional till i had it in there: "s0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 115200 ttyS0 vt100"
 
Old 07-16-2006, 02:39 AM   #3
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0k. Upon adding the above lines to /etc/inittab, the terminal is no longer shut down when calling agetty as such:

/sbin/agetty -L 115200 ttyS0 vt100

I may be missing some mechanics here perhaps.

-----tail /var/log/messages:

Jul 16 03:26:56 localhost login(pam_unix)[3147]: bad username [ Sun Cobalt - Smaller, Bluer, Better, and Free]
Jul 16 03:26:56 localhost su(pam_unix)[3113]: session closed for user root
Jul 16 03:26:56 localhost login[3147]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM (null) FOR Sun Cobalt - Smaller, Bluer, Better, and Free, Authentication failure
Jul 16 03:26:57 localhost login(pam_unix)[3147]: check pass; user unknown
Jul 16 03:26:57 localhost login(pam_unix)[3147]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ttyS0 ruser= rhost=
Jul 16 03:27:00 localhost login[3147]: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM (null) FOR done, Authentication failure
 
Old 07-16-2006, 02:44 AM   #4
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More specifically, I don't see any IO.
 
Old 07-16-2006, 10:15 PM   #5
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Minicom was my answer. Thanks.
 
  


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