Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 14:55:07 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: newton@internode.com.au Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem Message-ID: <199912271355.OAA13813@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <19991222133015.B13504@internode.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912221145070.540-100000@tardis.mx.com.au> <199912220138.RAA04766@mass.cdrom.com>
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In article <19991222133015.B13504@internode.com.au> you write: >On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 05:38:35PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Hmm, last time I checked, they were just 'serial ports'. > > > > Nope. The significance is determined by the software, and you're stuck > > with the fact that the first serial port is the console port. End of > > story. (Note: if we don't make some assumption about which port will be > > the console, how do you expect the software to work out which one it > > "should" use?) > >Insist that consoles be cabled-in with "real" cables, and use the first >port we find with DCD asserted as the console, falling back to COM1 if >we can't find any ports with DCD (indicating that someone has failed to >follow our cabling insistence) Btw. I just came across a 'null modem cable' that connects DCD to: nothing! It connects DTR to DSR but _not_ to DCD... other than that the wiring appears to be normal. Well, so i hacked an `altpin' flag into sio that lets me swap the functions of DSR and DCD. (Anyone thinks that would be worth cleaning up and send-pr'ing?) And a happy new year to everyone... -- Juergen Lock <nox.foo@jelal.kn-bremen.de> (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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