How do I connect to bbs using a linux terminal and telnet and mgetty.
I'm in Fedora 14 with an atari 800XL and a sio2pc and aspeQt
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BBS via Linux Terminal?
Started by esplonky, May 20 2012 5:33 PM
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Posted Sun May 20, 2012 5:33 PM
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Posted Sun May 20, 2012 6:30 PM
try:
telnet://bfbbs.no-ip.com
telnet://bfbbs.no-ip.com
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Posted Sun May 20, 2012 7:09 PM
and how do i go about connecting to this on my atari?
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Posted Sun May 20, 2012 7:50 PM
Sorry I thought you already had it connected. I can't help with aspqt - no experience.
I do what you are trying to do conecting the Atari to APE on a Windows PC.
I do what you are trying to do conecting the Atari to APE on a Windows PC.
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Posted Mon May 21, 2012 12:46 PM
esplonky, on Sun May 20, 2012 5:33 PM, said:
How do I connect to bbs using a linux terminal and telnet and mgetty.
I'm in Fedora 14 with an atari 800XL and a sio2pc and aspeQt
I'm in Fedora 14 with an atari 800XL and a sio2pc and aspeQt
Not.
You need to set-up a terminal connection from Atari to fedora. On the Atari side you need a serial device handler (usually R:) and AspeQt doesn't support that.
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Posted Mon May 21, 2012 5:43 PM
i need a noob's tutorial...
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Posted Tue May 22, 2012 1:13 PM
As far as talking doing it the regular way:
First thing you need is a device that adds a "PC style" serial RS232 port to the Atari 8-Bit. There are plenty of ways to do that. A SIO2PC interface can be considered as being one.
Next, you need a driver on Atari 8-Bit that adds an "R:" handler to HATABS. Just like you use "D:" to access a disk drive, or "P:" for the printer, you need an "R:" to access the serial interface but it has to be loaded/installed by yourself. Since the SIO2PC hardware is very similar to the RVerter interface you may try the RVERTER handler (It's on the IceT ATR 2.74 posted a little while ago, just to name one location).
Buy/make/borrow/steal a null-modem cable (or correctly wired break-out box). In case you need it, wiring is on my site: http://atari.mixinc....uts/pinouts.htm
Connect PC and Atari with the null-modem cable.
Load a terminal on both systems. Config as ASCII, 9600 baud, No parity, 8 bits, 1 stop bit (in many cases this is the default).
Check if you can send text back and forth between the 2 systems by typing characters in the terminal screen. If you see strange characters when typing, double-check your baudrate setting.
Once you can get this to work it's time to move to step 2...
First thing you need is a device that adds a "PC style" serial RS232 port to the Atari 8-Bit. There are plenty of ways to do that. A SIO2PC interface can be considered as being one.
Next, you need a driver on Atari 8-Bit that adds an "R:" handler to HATABS. Just like you use "D:" to access a disk drive, or "P:" for the printer, you need an "R:" to access the serial interface but it has to be loaded/installed by yourself. Since the SIO2PC hardware is very similar to the RVerter interface you may try the RVERTER handler (It's on the IceT ATR 2.74 posted a little while ago, just to name one location).
Buy/make/borrow/steal a null-modem cable (or correctly wired break-out box). In case you need it, wiring is on my site: http://atari.mixinc....uts/pinouts.htm
Connect PC and Atari with the null-modem cable.
Load a terminal on both systems. Config as ASCII, 9600 baud, No parity, 8 bits, 1 stop bit (in many cases this is the default).
Check if you can send text back and forth between the 2 systems by typing characters in the terminal screen. If you see strange characters when typing, double-check your baudrate setting.
Once you can get this to work it's time to move to step 2...
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Posted Tue May 22, 2012 8:15 PM
do I have to have a null modem?
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Posted Wed May 23, 2012 1:29 AM
If I remember this correct you can use a sio2pc interface that is connected to a serial port on pc to act like a null modem cable although you can only use it for transfer and talk.
Follow fox-1 guide for the rest.
I used to transfer a lot years ago this way.
Follow fox-1 guide for the rest.
I used to transfer a lot years ago this way.
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Posted Wed May 23, 2012 11:00 AM
I know how to transfer, what I am trying to do is BBS via a linux terminal, using an R-Verter and a sio2pc.
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Posted Wed May 23, 2012 11:17 AM
When you connect to your Linux machine, there must be a way to connect to the Linux terminal through the com port of the Linux machine.
If you get the login prompt you log on with your Linux credentials.
Then you could do anything you could do with the Linux terminal.
With the telnet command then you could bbsing with the Atari.
If you get the login prompt you log on with your Linux credentials.
Then you could do anything you could do with the Linux terminal.
With the telnet command then you could bbsing with the Atari.
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Posted Fri May 25, 2012 6:48 AM
Hey Guys
This thread has encouraged me to set this up on my machine. I'm using the serial port of my MIO set as 9600 N 1 and a null modem cable connected to ttyS0 on my Fedora Linux server. I've been using IceT to try it out.
The problem I'm having is that I can send data from the Linux box to the Atari, but not from the Atari back.
If I start up IceT on the A8 and then do 'screen /dev/ttyS0' on the Linux end, whatever I type on the Linux keyboard is echoed on the Atari screen, but when I type at the Atari end nothing pops out on the Linux end. Same thing happens if I run a GUI, I see the login prompt on the A8 but can't respond.
I'm happy the null modem is good as I use it to copy data from my Amiga to a PC so I'm wondering if I missed a setting some where? Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
This thread has encouraged me to set this up on my machine. I'm using the serial port of my MIO set as 9600 N 1 and a null modem cable connected to ttyS0 on my Fedora Linux server. I've been using IceT to try it out.
The problem I'm having is that I can send data from the Linux box to the Atari, but not from the Atari back.
If I start up IceT on the A8 and then do 'screen /dev/ttyS0' on the Linux end, whatever I type on the Linux keyboard is echoed on the Atari screen, but when I type at the Atari end nothing pops out on the Linux end. Same thing happens if I run a GUI, I see the login prompt on the A8 but can't respond.
I'm happy the null modem is good as I use it to copy data from my Amiga to a PC so I'm wondering if I missed a setting some where? Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
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Posted Fri May 25, 2012 2:37 PM
Without that last sentence I'd suspect the null-modem.
Is there a chance it's just something obvious, like, a loose wire in the cable, or slightly different wiring for Amiga usage, or a bent pin on the MIO connector?
Is there a chance it's just something obvious, like, a loose wire in the cable, or slightly different wiring for Amiga usage, or a bent pin on the MIO connector?
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Posted Fri May 25, 2012 7:23 PM
Just really need to setup a gettty on your linux box .. different distributions do it different ways, most configure it out of /etc/inittab. Not sure how you run a GUI or screen on a serial line, but I wouldn't worry unlesss you have a getty setup and still can't log in.
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Posted Yesterday, 7:34 AM
I don't even get to the login prompt. I run puTTY and it won't even let me open my /dev/ttyUSB0 (I'm using sloopys sio2pc USB) and aspeqt works fine with it transferring files to my atari
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Posted Today, 12:02 AM
Fox-1 / mnx, on Fri May 25, 2012 2:37 PM, said:
Without that last sentence I'd suspect the null-modem.
Is there a chance it's just something obvious, like, a loose wire in the cable, or slightly different wiring for Amiga usage, or a bent pin on the MIO connector?
Is there a chance it's just something obvious, like, a loose wire in the cable, or slightly different wiring for Amiga usage, or a bent pin on the MIO connector?
Yeah, I think you're right. Even in this cable which is supposed to be a "full" null modem I think CD is not corrected correctly so IceT doesn't know it is connected. I'm going to buy a couple of connectors and wire up a cable myself next week.
