Ive seen several posts on how to USE dumb terminals to access a server, but I need to do something a bit different. I have a legacy "network controller" for an RF network, and it's hooked up to a debian linux server through the serial ports like so:
/dev/ttyS0 - the "host" line, where it feeds information from the RF network into the server. i have a perl daemon to handle this.
/dev/ttyS1 - the "console" line, where normally one would hook up a dumb terminal to access the configuration menu.
now, I need something I can run
ON the server to connect
TO this controller through /dev/ttyS1, so i can configure it.
and, there isnt an xserver installed on this linux machine (its a webserver, so there wouldnt normally be any reason to have an xserver).
so a terminal emulator, i suppose is what I need. I had it previously connected to a win32 box, and communicated with it via a Wyse50/60 emulator. the terminal types it officially supports are:
- IBM 3101
- ADM 3/5
- ADM 31/32/42
- Hazeltine
- Televideo
- DEC VT100 (though i was NEVER able to get it to work with a VT100 emulator on a win32 box)
i've done a lot of google searching and havent found anything like what i need here...if anyone could help, i would greatly appreciate it.
