Connecting WYSE terminals through serial port extensions (Perle board)

[laughigncube]

Hi,
Not exactly familiar with serial port communication--and thats causing a lot of grief...
unable to get the WYSE dumb terminal working.....I have checked the serial port setting-they seem to be fine...the perle serial port extension (PCI card giving 4 port outlet ) ports show up as ttyPS0-ttyPS3
Running these commands gives

setserial -a /dev/ttyPS1
/dev/ttyPS1, Line 1, UART: Cirrus, Port: 0xe008, IRQ: 2
Baud_base: 921600, close_delay: 500, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 30000
Flags: spd_normal


setserial -a /dev/ttyS0
/dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000
Flags: spd_normal skip_test



echo /etc/hosts > /dev/ttyPS1
just waits/hangs on the next line.

contents of log file ----> mgetty.log.ttyPS1

07/27 08:51:17 PS1 tio_get_rs232_lines: status: RTS DTR
07/27 08:51:17 PS1 WARNING: DSR is off - modem turned off or bad cable?
07/27 08:51:17 PS1 lowering DTR to reset Modem
07/27 08:51:18 PS1 tss: set speed to 9600 (015)
07/27 08:51:18 PS1 tio_set_flow_control( HARD )
07/27 08:51:18 PS1 waiting for line to clear (VTIME=1), read:
07/27 08:51:18 PS1 waiting for line to clear (VTIME=3), read:
07/27 08:51:18 PS1 removing lock file
07/27 08:51:18 PS1 waiting...
07/27 09:51:17 PS1 checking lockfiles, locking the line
07/27 09:51:17 PS1 makelock(ttyPS1) called
07/27 09:51:17 PS1 do_makelock: lock='/var/lock/LCK..ttyPS1'
07/27 09:51:17 PS1 lock made
07/27 09:51:17 PS1 waiting for line to clear (VTIME=3), read:
07/27 09:51:18 PS1 utmp + wtmp entry made
07/27 09:51:18 PS1 tio_set_flow_control( HARD )
07/27 09:51:18 PS1 print welcome banner (/etc/issue)
07/27 09:55:18 PS1 getlogname: timeout
07/27 09:55:18 PS1 getlogname (AUTO_PPP), read:


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have I set it up as a modem ? Instead of a direct connection..now I am lost...

[wsurritte]

In my (little) experience, i just typed
w/out quotes
"getty ttyS0 9600,8,N,1"

and the terminals worked.

I realize it's not much help,and I was just using a built in RS-232 port, but thats what I did.

[laughigncube]

Thanks for the reply
finally gave up on that board..using anther pci board and that looks all good...