adm3a and Linux

[John Floren]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:51 PM, John Floren <slawmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I pulled out my ADM-3A today in an effort to stave off studying and
> homework and such; hooked it up to my Debian box, only to find that
> there isn't really very good support for it under Debian. I use this
> line in my inittab:
> T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -h -L ttyS0 9600 adm3a
> and while I can log in, vim for example looks TERRIBLE, ls tries to do
> color and fails miserably, etc.
> When I log on to one of the Solaris machines on campus via SSH, they
> handle things gracefully. ls works right, vi is excellent.
> Is the difference in our terminfo files, or what? I'm not really sure
> how these things work so I'm hoping somebody can help me figure out
> what's up here, because I'd like my Debian computer to play nicely
> with the terminal.
> Thanks
>
> John

Ok, one more thing.
When I turn on the terminal, I don't get a login prompt, just the
cursor in the upper left. I hit enter and break a bunch of times but
don't get anything. If I unplug the serial cable and reconnect it,
however, I'll suddenly get all the login prompts that I should have
seen from hitting enter all those times.
Here's what I've got in my inittab:
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -h -L ttyS0 9600 adm3a

Anybody know what's going on here? I seem to remember it working fine
hooked up to my Debian laptop...

John
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