From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 13 13:20:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 613C33DC7 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 13:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA37834; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:25:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:25:20 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Serial Console Speed Message-ID: <20000213162520.E31722@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <008101bf7647$734c5080$0200000a@danco.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <008101bf7647$734c5080$0200000a@danco.home>; from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 09:25:53AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 09:25:53AM -0800, Dan O'Connor wrote: > Greetings, all! > > I'm trying to set up my FreeBSD box with a serial console over a null-modem > cable to my Windows box running SecureCRT (serial connection, not ssh). My > goal is to get rid of the monitor and keyboard on my FreeBSD box to free-up > some desk space. > > I've followed the advice in section 13.5 of the FreeBSD Handbook and > /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.serial, and I have it working, but I can't > get the connection to work at anything other than the default 9600 bps. > > I've added 'BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=19200' in /etc/make.conf, recompiled the > boot blocks and installed them using 'disklabel -B wd0'. I also added > 'options CONSPEED=19200' to my kernel config file and recompiled the kernel. > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Did you change the speeds in /etc/ttys? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message