Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:39:42 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: djf2 <djf2@danu.ili.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Serial console issues Message-ID: <20020619163946872.AAA667@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10206190846590.23228-100000@danu.ili.net> References: <20020618235524270.AAA595@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
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On 19 Jun 2002, at 8:50, djf2 boldly uttered: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > > > > (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.. :-) > > > > > > > > I'm actually going to be looking at using some of those intel serial > management features on a few other machines that I have. What type of > problems have you run into with them? Do they work at all? I should've > figured that it sounded too good to be true 0-(. Well I noticed 2 issues: I tried 2 different terminal programs and different types of "ANSI" emulation, and on both of them I was getting scattered characters and screen corruption in the output. It's possible there's a terminal program that does a better job of interpreting what it's sending, but I haven't found it. (FWIW the proggys I tried were both Windows apps: hyperterminal and NetTerm. Historically NetTerm has had flawless terminal emulation.) 2nd issue is that it seems to have a nasty habit of occassionally sending random characters to the console of its own volition. Baaad JuJu, I can just imagine the eventual consequences of that.. :-( I tried different speeds, turning UART buffering on/off, etc., not sure it helped the random character problem, it certainly didn't help the screen display problems. All of the above pertains to the "console redirection" facility - there are also "EMP" and page-out thingies which I haven't played with yet. (BTW it didn't look like you cc'd your original msg to the list but I decided to because I thought the info would be of general interest) -- 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
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