From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 15 12:09:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4BE16A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:09:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (mail1.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.171.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B4A43D41 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:09:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp) Received: from spam005.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (spam005.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.50.198]) by mail1.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42AE97030F for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:09:15 +0900 (JST) Received: from gin.myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp ( [157.82.72.158]) by spam005.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (SpamBlock.pst 3.4.25) with ESMTP id for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:09:12 +0900 Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:09:12 +0900 Message-ID: From: Hiroharu Tamaru To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <20040814073928.DEBD367F83@gunfright.epcdirect.co.uk> User-Agent: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.0 (Venus) Emacs/21.3 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-IP: 157.82.72.158 X-FROM-DOMAIN: myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp X-FROM-EMAIL: tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp Subject: Re: How to receive BIOS console redirection? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:09:20 -0000 At Sat, 14 Aug 2004 02:08:18 +0900, Hiroharu Tamaru wrote: > I have a Supermicrio P4SC8 motherboard and I want to receive > its BIOS console redirect output on another FreeBSD box. > The motherboard is checking for *something* to see if a > serial terminal is attached, and rejects the link. > > I tried 'tip com1' with an /etc/remote setup of > > com1:dv=/dev/cuaa0:br#115200:pa=none: > > and ports/comms/kermit with > > set line /dev/cuaa0 > set speed 115200 > set carrier-watch off > connect > > and in both cases, the motherboard times out and abandons > the redirection. Thank you for those who replied to me off-list. Encouraged by some working examples, I retried the investigation, and now I figured out what was wrong with my setup. The motherboard seems to be checking for some terminal escape sequences. At first I was working on FreeBSD console (TERM=cons25), and that was the cause of failure. Then I tried it from xterm, and it successfully started to redirect. But that was not the end of the story ;-p With xterm I could get console messages redirected, but I couldn't enter the BIOS setup menus. It was not reading the "DEL" key that I typed. So then I changed to screen (ports/misc/screen), and finally I can enter the BIOS menues and all. So to summarize, when I work inside screen, both tip and kermit worked well with the config shown above. cu -s 115200 -l /dev/cuaa0 also worked well. I was also sugested with minicom, but that I could not configure well to get everything working (it has many features and I didn't look into it that much). I still cannot enter the Intel NIC's setup menu, which is initiated with Ctrl-S. And for 3ware RAID BIOS (entered with Alt-3), the menu is entered (as verified on video console), but the output is not redirected to the serial port, though, the keys I type on the serial side are sent and recoganized by the RAID BIOS. But I'd say those are another story, and I'm happy that I can fiddle with the main BIOS setup for now. Thank you very much for your help. -- Hiroharu Tamaru