Windows to Linux connection via Serial Port

andrewm659 · 02-23-2006, 10:16 AM

How do i setup a linux box to offer a console via serial cable to a windows box running hyperterm? I'm using Debian and Suse.

acid_kewpie · 02-23-2006, 11:21 AM

ahh i love the smell of google in the morning. http://users.skynet.be/langewouters/serialgetty.html

acid_kewpie · 02-23-2006, 11:21 AM

btw, try tuTTY ( a puTTY fork) instead of crappy hypertrm.

andrewm659 · 02-23-2006, 11:38 AM

is this what it is supposed to look like?

root 9338 0.0 0.0 120 4 pts/0 D+ 11:37 0:00 grep ttyS0 LESSKEY=/etc/lesskey.bin MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/gnome/share/man INFODIR=/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info NNTPSERVER=news HOSTNAME=chaos XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB GNOME2_PATH=/usr/local:/opt/gnome:/usr SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm HOST=chaos HISTSIZE=1000 PROFILEREAD=true SSH_CLIENT=192.168.1.72 35274 22 GNOME_PATH=:/opt/gnome:/usr QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0 USER=andrew JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/java/jre LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=00;36

i=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01

r=40;31: ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.dll=01;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tbz=0 0;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.deb=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.zoo=00;31 :*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.tb2=00;31:*.tz2=00;31:*.tbz2=00;31:*.avi=01;35:*.bmp=0 1;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.pcx=01;3 5:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*. dl=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.aiff=00;32:*.au=00;32:*.mid=00;32:*.mp3=00;32:*.ogg=00;32:*.voc=00;32:*.wav=00 ;32: XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls HOSTTYPE=i386 PAGER=less MINICOM=-c on PATH=/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin MAIL=/var/mail/andrew GNOMEDIR=/opt/gnome CPU=i686 JAVA_BINDIR=/usr/lib/java/bin PWD=/boot/grub INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SDK_HOME=/usr/lib/java TEXINPUTS=:/home/andrew/.TeX:/usr/share/doc/.TeX:/usr/doc/.TeX HOME=/root SHLVL=2 JDK_HOME=/usr/lib/java OSTYPE=linux LESS_ADVANCED_PREPROCESSOR=no XCURSOR_THEME=crystalwhite no_proxy=localhost LS_OPTIONS=-a -N --color=tty -T 0 WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde GTK_PATH=/usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0:/opt/gnome/lib/gtk-2.0:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0 LOGNAME=andrew MACHTYPE=i686-suse-linux LESS=-M -I SSH_CONNECTION=192.168.1.72 35274 192.168.1.50 22 LESSOPEN=lessopen.sh %s PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info:/opt/gnome/share/info ACLOCAL_PATH=/opt/gnome/share/aclocal DISPLAY=localhost:10.0 XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME=chaos LESSCLOSE=lessclose.sh %s %s G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 COLORTERM=1 JAVA_ROOT=/usr/lib/java _=/bin/grep OLDPWD=/boot /bin/grep

andrewm659 · 02-23-2006, 11:42 AM

Also how do tel Putty to go to the Serial Port?

andrewm659 · 02-23-2006, 12:39 PM

It keeps killing off the process. How can i find out why?

acid_kewpie · 02-23-2006, 01:40 PM

check dmesg. also try jsut running the getty command in the foreground and see if there are any verbose flags available for whichever getty comman you use. and like i said, it's tuTTY, not puTTY. serial port access has been on the puTTY wishlist for years, hence someone's fork.

andrewm659 · 02-23-2006, 02:31 PM

where can i find this, i've looked on the putty website and on google? is it on freshmeat?

acid_kewpie · 02-23-2006, 02:39 PM

how could you have googled when it's the third result?? http://www.google.com/search?q=tutty Anyway, this is quite irrelevant, i was just recommending a hyperterminal replacement...

andrewm659 · 02-23-2006, 02:52 PM

ok i'm trying this now. i hope this works.

andrewm659 · 02-23-2006, 02:59 PM

this is my line in the /etc/inittab on suse 9.1 what am i doing wrong here?

S12:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L -n -i -l /etc/issue /bin/bash ttyS0 19200 dumb

acid_kewpie · 02-23-2006, 03:57 PM

you're use /etc/issue as your login shell? why? did you not read the link i gave, or the manpage for getty or agetty?