From: Greg Chavez (gregmark1973@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 22:58:10 EDT
Sorry about my first go, which was rather incomplete, I'm not accustomed to
hotmail yet and seem to have stumbled upon some unfortunate shortcut
keystroke.
Enough prologue, here's the problem.
I have a Thinkpad 380D running Solaris 2.6 without X. What I would like to
do is connect it via a null modem cable to my Thinkpad A20, which is running
Mandrake 9. The A20 has an ethernet card, whereas the cruddy old 380D does
not. I simply want to be able to transfer large files (patch clusters and
such), downloaded from the Internet to the A20, to the 380D running Solaris.
When I run minicom from the Linux laptop, I do not get a login to the
Solaris laptop. I do not know know why. I used to use minicom with utter
ease at my last IT job. I suspect that the serial port on the 380D may be
hosed, but before I junked it, I thought I would ask the list for any
suggestions. I have exhausted my own bag of tricks and the famous tutorials
by Celeste and Pete.
The Thinkpad A20 (Mandrake 9):
I have minicom set to 9600 8N1 on ttyS0. I have used this port with a modem
with complete success. Hardware and flow control are off. /dev/ttys0 and
/var/lock set liberally to 777.
The Thinkpad 380D (Solaris 2.6):
My modem, when connected as ttys0, responds, although I never bothered to
test it fully with uucp setup. I scrapped the default port monitor and
added a new one:
PMTAG:zsmon PMTYPE:ttymon SVCTAG:ttyS0 FLGS:u ID:root
PMSPECIFIC: /dev/term/a - - /usr/bin/login - 9600 - - - - y #
"tip hardwire2" connects. /dev/term/a with liberal permissions (777) and
owned root:tty.
Thanks in advance.
--Greg C.
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