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From: josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: adding a PC as a TTY
Message-ID: <3499@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx>
Date: 28 Jun 91 15:53:30 GMT
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Organization: ITESM. Campus Monterrey
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root@scona.UUCP (Corey Wirun) writes:

>Is there something I'm missing here.....

>I want to hang a PS/2 serially off my RS/6000-520 (3003 code). I 'made'
>a null modem cable by takinga regular modem cable and switching just
>pins #2-3 (i.e. 2->3, 3->2). I def'd a tty at 9600 baud and set it to
>enable logins. When I try to get onto the RS on the PC using kermit, I
>can't for the life of me get a login banner. There is a getty running
>on the RS, but it has a '?' on it for the tty under 'ps -e'. 


 Mmmmm, are you trying thos on native ports ? or on a module ( 8+ terms )

 if you are on native module, check out your cable, remember the 'STANDARD'
  from IBM that exchanges all the pins.


 Don't you have a little box that you put in the ugly IBM 3151 terminal
  and exchange some pins....


 Jose A. Vela A.
josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx

  ITESM