Divarin
Veteran Member
Okay earlier I posted about a broken silent 700 model 703. I have since then received a refund.
I picked up another and it seems to be working okay I guess but I'm not sure how to get it connected.
My main PC is a linux box (Linux Mint) but I've only been using linux for a few months so I'm not expert with it.
I do have a USB serial adapter which I use to connect various things using tcpser and I have done some Googling and saw posts about "agetty" which I'm not familiar with.
First I tried taking a zimodem rs232-wifi adater, configuring it for 300 baud, (saving that setting) and then connecting it to the silent 700. no good.
Then I tried tcpser on my PC set at 300 baud, no good.
I think the issue is that the silent 700 doesn't support no parity so I think I have to use agetty but I'm not sure how.
I did find this reddit post which shows a configuration for the model 703. so I put that into /etc/termcap. This file did not exist before doing this so I'm not sure this is the right file, I understand different distros use different files in different locations sometimes.
Anyway so then I tried launching agetty with:
agetty 300 /dev/ttyUSB0 ti703
and it just sits there for about 5 seconds and then drops back to the shell prompt.
the "Line Ready (LINE RDY)" light never illuminates.
I picked up another and it seems to be working okay I guess but I'm not sure how to get it connected.
My main PC is a linux box (Linux Mint) but I've only been using linux for a few months so I'm not expert with it.
I do have a USB serial adapter which I use to connect various things using tcpser and I have done some Googling and saw posts about "agetty" which I'm not familiar with.
First I tried taking a zimodem rs232-wifi adater, configuring it for 300 baud, (saving that setting) and then connecting it to the silent 700. no good.
Then I tried tcpser on my PC set at 300 baud, no good.
I think the issue is that the silent 700 doesn't support no parity so I think I have to use agetty but I'm not sure how.
I did find this reddit post which shows a configuration for the model 703. so I put that into /etc/termcap. This file did not exist before doing this so I'm not sure this is the right file, I understand different distros use different files in different locations sometimes.
Anyway so then I tried launching agetty with:
agetty 300 /dev/ttyUSB0 ti703
and it just sits there for about 5 seconds and then drops back to the shell prompt.
the "Line Ready (LINE RDY)" light never illuminates.
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