This might help some, this is for how to hook up a dumb terminal on a FreeBSD box. Just make some changes for the Linux box.

http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/15.09.shtml

Also a more indepth GNU/Linux howto

http://www.ukuug.org/newsletter/linu...lti_user.shtml

Ah, thank you so much; this helps immensely! Its funny, I searched google and went through alot of data and I bet it only took you 5 minutes to find that. Oh well, c'est la vie.

Thanks for all your help and patience,
Robert

I have no idea how to do this on intel hardware, but I suspect the problem is that the serial port you are connecting to is not acting as an input or output device, meaning no login prompt or shell is available to it.

Once you have the computer talking out the serial interface, it should be a simple matter of connecting the dumb terminal and making sure the settings are correct (speep, bits, duplex, & stop bit).

I am not a serial expert, but I also think you will need a splitter like those made by Black Box to connect several terminals to one host.

Yes, the splitter was what I was talking about that confused everybody, thinking it was networking. I will check my hardware and make sure the port is sending/recieving data!

Thanks,
Robert

yhe best way is to use emulator and sorry u can use cat 5 install dos or boot and install lan manger or passway
and use emulator like kermit or alif term i did it many many time