Re: Televideo dumb terminal with 4.10?

From: Torfinn Ingolfsen (tingo_at_start.no)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:15:16 +0100

rloef@interfold.com wrote:

> All,
>
> Is there a recipe anywhere for using a true dumb terminal with FreeBSD?
> I've looked around a little and saw only regular CPUs + monitor as a
> serial terminal. Anything special for using a Televideo or Qume or IBM
> 3151? I have a couple pallets of these beasts.

I'm not really sure what you're asking about. AFAIK, most dumb terminals
are serial terminals. To make them work with FreeBSD you only have to
follow a few steps:
1) get / make a correct serial cable for the terminal in question
2) attach it to a working serial port on your FreeBSD machine
3) make sure that there is a getty on that port
4) make sure you have a correct termcap entry for tha terminal in
    question

Most of this is detailed in the Handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/term.html
HTH 

-- 
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway

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