hello,

I want to enable telnet on a board with atmel controller and linux 2.6.19 running on it. I am using busybox-1.4.2. I am fallowing the instructions given in the busybox to enable "telnetd".

I've enabled UNIX98_PTYS = y and DEVPTS_FS = y in the kernel.
My root file system has "/dev/pts " and "/dev/ptmx".

After booting, I am not able to run telnetd as a background process.
if I run telnetd on console, it asks for login. After I enter "root", the board is not behaving properly.

I am not getting any error when I mount devpts also.

Please reply where I am going wrong. If possible pls send a link to the documentation which can help me in this matter.

Thanks in advance,

Sandeep

IMHO your problem seems that you haven't got a telnet daemon in your system, it isn't only a matter of kernel config.
FYI in our KaeilOS linux we offer utelnetd which is 10KB small and reliable.

kind regards