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From: Marian Hettwer <Mh@kernel32.de>
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Hi Kim,

Kim Culhan wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Marian Hettwer wrote:
> 
> 
>>ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
>>
>>from "off" to "on" and issue a "kill -HUP 1" to initalise the
>>serial console.
> 
> 
> 1) Change 'dialup' to a terminal type such as 'vt220'
> 
> 2) Create a file (if it doesn't exist already)
> 
>    /boot/loader.conf.local
> 
>    with the line:
> 
>    console=comconsole
> 
> Expect the port to be set to 96008N1
> 
I did both steps. However... deadlock after either doing the SIGHUP on 
PID 1 or doing a reboot. deadlock appears than right after the boot is 
finished.
Well... it may have something todo with what I found now in dmesg:
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0: port may not be enabled
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 8250 or not responding

this doesn't look good, eh ?
although:
([mhettwer@ares] <~>)$ ls /dev/ttyd*
/dev/ttyd0
([mhettwer@ares] <~>)$ ls /dev/cua*
/dev/cuaa0      /dev/cuaia0     /dev/cuala0

but:
([mhettwer@ares] <~>)$ ls /dev/sio*
ls: /dev/sio*: No such file or directory


hmm... something's strange...

best regards,
Marian