Serial Bash Question

[tomjones99]

I have serial bash up and ready, however, I can't seem to type anything in the screen on the bash prompt. I'm using SecureCRT is there a command or key I need to press in order to type. Does anyone have an answer to this question?

[PlainBill]

You may not have serial bash - it sounds like you only have console output. Give a short summary of what you did to get this far. Attaching your rc.sysinit.author file and console output AS A FILE would also help.

PlainBill

[tomjones99]

Thanks PlainBill for helping but I figured out what I did wrong. The connection for the flow control was set to RTS/CTS. After I unchecked the box, I had access. Now I am left wondering which flow control should I enable. Serial bash seems to work fine when XON/XOFF is enabled. It also seems to work when no flow control is enabled. What should I set it to and what is flow control for anyways?

[PlainBill]

Thanks PlainBill for helping but I figured out what I did wrong. The connection for the flow control was set to RTS/CTS. After I unchecked the box, I had access. Now I am left wondering which flow control should I enable. Serial bash seems to work fine when XON/XOFF is enabled. It also seems to work when no flow control is enabled. What should I set it to and what is flow control for anyways?
Flow control is normally set to 'none' for serial bash.

Flow control is used by the slower device (i.e. a dot matrix printer) to control the flow of information from a faster device (i.e. a computer). As an example, a laser printer prints a page at a time. A serial laser printer could accept data at very high speed until the buffer was full. At that time it would start 'writing' the image to the drum, transfering it to the paper, etc. While this write operation was going on, it could not accept any more data. Flow control was used to tell the computer not to send any more data.

PlainBill