Linux-Hams archive - August 1997: re: slattach

re: slattach

Terry Dawson (ujbeqapv.sksl@wesleytowers.com)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 09:31:30 +1000


ciih.ujlwnmplcv@otava.fi wrote:

> Here is what I tried:
> slattach ptypf 38400 (works fine)
> ifconfig.. (as described in axhowto)
> attach in tnos
> (works all fine)
>
> when rebooting I try this again ( a small script does )
> and slattach ptypf 38400 gives: I/O error
> so I can do slattach ptype for instance.. change the autoexec.nos and go on..
> But I don't think this is the desired way to do it ?

By 'rebooting', do you mean 'restarting TNOS', or 'shutdown -r now' ?

> The axhowto says to run this line:
> slattach -s 38400 -p slip /dev/ptypf &
> though I think slattach changed and does not accept -s -p things anymore..
> I'm using nettools 1.33 axutils 2.1.42 lnux 2.0.30+mod14c ..

slattach doesn't come in the net-tools packages any more.
Bernd intends to release a 'net-utils' package with those sorts of
utilities in it, so whatever slattach you have came from somewhere
else.

The slattach that is included in the debian netbase package certainly
supports [-s ...] [-p ...]

> I thought about detaching the sl0 so I did ifconfig sl0 down like the man page says.. still it gives I/O error the next time.
>
> The man also says to use ttyXX .. This does not work. I think that has to be ptyXX ??

What are you actually (at the highest level) trying to achieve ?

Terry