You might try 19200 or 9600 for baud and none on parity and 1 stop bit, that's pretty vanilla... john Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 19:34 +0200, SoNicX wrote: > >> hello, >> i have wired myself a nullmodemcable to connect a small machine to my >> centos-ltsp-and-so-on-server. using agetty i can login fine, just a few >> garbage chars here and there but working is ok. now this isnt what i wanted, >> so i disabled agetty, made a line in syslog.conf like >> *.* /dev/ttyS0 >> and made the system produce a lockfile after syslog is started to lock that >> serial port. now data reaches my minicom using terminal emulator, but its >> garbage, looking like this: >> ...x.x.x at ..x.x. >> and so on. if i do >> echo "somechar" > /dev/ttyS0 >> its the same garbage. im sure this is a quite simple thing, but i dont get it >> to work. do i need another terminal prog if i try to send plaintext with >> syslog (as it seems to me clueless as i am). do i need to manipulate syslog >> output somehow? i tried to fiddle around with setserial but the port should >> work, as they to with agetty. i hope someone on this list has experience with >> this, doenst seem to be too popular. >> > > You need to set the speed and parity to match at both ends on the > serial port. Agetty probably cycled through some speeds to match up > or had a config file. Stty will show/change the settings but I think > they revert to defaults on the last close. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060807/52ed6aee/attachment-0005.html>