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Re: [LUG] Wakey Wakey



Quoting "Darke, Clive":

Has anyone ever attempted to connect a real DEC vt220 to a PC serial port?
Not for me you understand, but for a very shy friend.  Any advice would be
welcome.

You'll need to make sure you run a getty on the serial port.  This will give you
the ability to log in via the serial port. 

Are you intending that this should be the machine console (ie no vga
card/montior)?  If so you'll need to compile "support for console on serial
port" into your kernel and pass something like console=ttyS1 to the kernel from
your bootloader.

Alex.

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