[Newlug] dumb terminal

[Bernard Starzewski]

Man me & Don used to do hundreds of those!
You could have also telnet-ed to the IP.
You might have had to had telnet service configured but in my experience thats pretty much the default.

--- On Sun, 2/6/11, Tim Bolz <tim.bolz at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tim Bolz <tim.bolz at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Newlug] dumb terminal
> To: newlug at newlug.org
> Date: Sunday, February 6, 2011, 1:22 PM
> I am running Ubuntu 10.04 and have a
> Dorio 20 Dumb terminal hooked up
> to my pc through the serial port.  This is old
> school.  Here's a link
> for a what it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal  I
> had an email discussion about dumb terminal with a windows
> user and he
> thought I was talking about a thin client which is
> completely
> different.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client   It
> is like
> hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6 but on a separate keyboard and
> monitor.  I
> found it very usefull when X froze and and you could use
> the keyboard
> to reset X.  I would go over to the Dorio log in and
> kill X and X
> would restart.  The things you will need to hook a
> dumb terminal up is
> one serial cable and null modem adapter and of course the
> dumb
> terminal.
> 
> Well I haven't used it in a while so I thought I'd start it
> up.  It
> didn't work and then I realized I hadn't configured it
> yet.    I
> forgot how to so I looked at some old notes. The notes were
> from
> Ubuntu 7.04 and they didn't work. So I  had to do some
> google searches
> and finally found out how to do it. Here is what I did so
> if anyone
> else wants to do it they don't have to go through the
> searches like I
> did.
> 
> In a terminal run these commands.
> 
> cd /etc/init
> sudo cp tty1.conf ttyS0.conf
> sudo gedit ttyS0.conf
> 
> change the tty1 to ttyS0 at the top
> and add
> exec /sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
> either # the below line or delete it
> #exec /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1
> 
> So it should look something like this.
> 
> # ttyS0 - getty
> #
> # This service maintains a getty on tty1 from the point the
> system is
> # started until it is shut down again.
> 
> start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
> stop on runlevel [!2345]
> 
> respawn
> exec /sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
> #exec /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1
> 
> Save it and then run this command.
> sudo start ttyS0
> 
> The dumb terminal should start.
> 
> I can bring the cable , null modem and the Dorio Dumb
> terminal to the
> LUG for a demonstration.  I would need a laptop with a
> serial
> connector though.  I have never tried a usb to rs232
> though so if
> someone brought one we could try it.
> 
> Tim
>