From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 16:55:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00ED137B404 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:55:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:55:24 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:55:23 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: Serial console issues Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: Aaron Burke , djf2 , "Corey Snow" X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020618235524270.AAA595@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG djf2 wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Aaron Burke wrote: > > You should be able to use "dmesg | grep sio" to determine what kind > > of hardware you are running. > > I'm fairly certain it isn't the hardware, at least in my case. > I've used several different machines that were at least relatively recent > hardware (at least past the point where they wouldn't have had a 16550 > uart) and the serial console exhibited the same behavior each time. In my case I'm not able to get the serial console working at all. All I get on my display is some periodic commas and D characters. I have it set for Xon/Xoff flow control. Current FBSD versions appear to enable console operations by default on sio0, (with the "flags 0x10" argument in the kernal config file) so in theory all I should have to do is connect a null-modem cable, run a comm program at 9600,N,8,1 - create a boot.config file with a "-D" or "-h" or "-Dh" in it (or specify it to the boot loader at boot time) and get something. I don't get any output. I'm going to try it on another box and see if it's hardware related. (aside: the Intel L440GX+ server board I'm testing this on has a bunch of embedded serial management features, most of which work on COM2. Among other things, it has a "console redirection" feature which does basically the same thing those $300 boards from www.realweasel.com do - and which Rod Smith so helpfully mentioned in the previous thread. Too bad the Intel implementation is buggy.. :-) -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message