Bah! HP Terminal smarter n' me

[Tony Duell]

> 
> Anyone know much about HP terminals (700/96) I have this beast hooked 
> to a serial port on
> my linux box.. I am using a "serial laplink" cable and a null modem 
> adapter (that should be
> two null modems together) I have agetty lines in my /etc/inittab

My first worry is that if it's a normal terminal it'll be a DTE (I've 
never met a terminal that wasn't wired as such, for obvious reasons!) and 
a PC serial port is normally a DTE too. You need 1 null-modem between them.

Get a breakout box (or even one of those little adapter-with-LEDs 
testers) and find out which pins the terminal and PC are using as outputs.

-tony