From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 29 9:47:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mighty.grot.org (mighty.grot.org [204.182.56.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F4337B417 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:47:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by mighty.grot.org (Postfix, from userid 515) id 725395E8C; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:47:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:47:11 -0800 From: Aditya To: Vivek Khera Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serial console vs. serial terminal Message-ID: <20020329174711.GC12102@mighty.grot.org> Reply-To: Aditya References: <20020328115551.R33831-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://www.grot.org/pubkey.asc X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x6405D8D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 07:32:51AM -0800, Vivek Khera wrote: > I have a rack of systems about 50 miles from my office that are hooked > up to a TS1000 (just a smaller version of the TS2000) using the cables > Cyclades sold to me. They work just fine to the console ports. I went the slightly more frustrating but cheaper route of buying the Cyclades TS2000 on eBay and fashioning my own cables; I did finally get them working with regular old CAT5 patch cables. The RJ45-DB9F modular adapter pinout that I used is detailed in the mailing list: http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=804788+0+cureebsd-stable The crux of the problem is that FreeBSD doesn't assert carrier on serial ports that aren't serving as the serial console so this has to be done "by the cable". This is in fact detailed in the handbook. Thanks for the help, Adi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message