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Re: Serial line problems. Does anyone have a working getty?


On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 05:56:05PM -0700, Aluminum Petrofsky wrote:
>I've been trying, but failing, to get mgetty to work on /dev/com1.
>
>The serial line works fine under NT using Hyperterminal, but in cygwin
>attempts to change the port speed or set canonical input mode fail.  I
>once got a shell started, but it's hard working without such niceties
>as echoing.  stty reports "unable to perform all requested operations"
>for just about any operation I request.
>
>I'm using cygwin 1.1.2 (0.21/3/2) and NT 4.0 build 1381; SP4.
>
>Am I experiencing known cygwin limitations, or weirdness with my
>system?

The former.  Cygwin does not have full termios support for serial
lines.

Sorry.

cgf

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