Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >According to Andrew MacIntyre: >> As I was used to agetty and minicom cooperating nicely on an >> ancient Slackware box, I expected this to work on this much more >> recent Debian box <sigh>. > >That is because that worked with the cua/ttyS devices (kernel based >locking between dialin/dialout) which has officially been deprecated >by the linux kernel developers.
Thanks for the explanation. >> I use mgetty at home, but didn't really want to have to deal with >> its complexities for the situation at hand. > >Complex? Mgetty? mgetty -s 38400 /dev/ttyS1 ? Complex because I used the fax enabled version - it didn't sink in that there was a package without the fax support. >> The situation's more or less under control, so I won't worry about >> the problem further, although I was disappointed not be able to >> find the getty source package. > >Source of both agetty and mgetty is available on all debian mirrors. Could you tell me where then please. AFAICT, getty is packaged as base/getty, however such a package appears not to exist, either source or binary. mgetty I found w/o any probs. BTW apologies if this message appears poorly formatted - I have attempted to manually format it but the web-based mail interface I'm using appears to not respect explicit CRs in a paragraph :-( Regards, Andrew MacIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
