vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H) (05/08/91)
I have a new old stock 3b1 with Unix 3.0 that I am setting up. I can't do a login from a terminal connected to /dev/tty000. I get the login prompt, type an account name and return, and I can hear the 3b1 disk churn as though it is trying to put up the password: prompt, but nothing appears on the terminal screen. I have tried killing processes to get the getty to respawn, but can't clear the line to do anything until I reboot the system. I have used the install menu to shut the line off, and can copy files to and from the terminal screen, so there is a fair chance I have the RS-232 stuff set up OK. What communicates is 9600,N,8,1. I have also tried 9600,E,7,1 on the terminal, but communications are garbled, although I get the same effect with a login. Can't get an Intel 2400 bit modem to talk to the system either. Using the on-board modem works, but every so often something glitches the system into a suspend and back to showing the call screen. Any bright ideas? Email internet address is vancleef@iastate.edu -- Hank van Cleef vancleef@iastate.edu Iowa State University, Ames. Ia. tmn!vancleef The Union Institute, Cincinnati, Oh.
n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton) (05/09/91)
In article <1991May8.012322.29721@news.iastate.edu> vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H) writes: > > I have a new old stock 3b1 with Unix 3.0 that I am setting up. I can't >do a login from a terminal connected to /dev/tty000. I get the login >prompt, type an account name and return, and I can hear the 3b1 disk >churn as though it is trying to put up the password: prompt, but nothing >appears on the terminal screen. I have tried killing processes to ... Aha! Another person with the exact same problem. BTW, I was using 3.51. Here's the fix: check your serial cable. I was using a generic Macintosh- modem cable. However, this particular cable didn't carry one line (I forgot) and some others were not connected correctly. Check the numerous postings here in the past about the serial port hook- ups. Once I made a new serial cable for the unixpc-mac connection, it works fine. Say, MGR on my macintosh is interesting with the programs running on the 7300.. later. Brent Burton n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu