From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 10:27:41 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB3B16A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:27:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wizard.online.ee (wizard.online.ee [194.106.96.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2986C43D5E for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:27:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jani@soundflows.com) Received: (qmail 7874 invoked by uid 79); 8 Apr 2005 13:27:38 +0300 Received: from 194.106.123.34 by wizard (envelope-from , uid 78) with qmail-scanner-1.24st (clamdscan: 0.81/704. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.24st. Clear:RC:0(194.106.123.34):SA:0(0.0/5.0):. Processed in 0.21806 secs); 08 Apr 2005 13:27:38 +2000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?194.106.123.34?) (194.106.123.34) by wizard.online.ee with SMTP; 8 Apr 2005 13:27:38 +0300 Message-ID: <42565C3A.2000407@soundflows.com> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:26:02 +0300 From: Jani Luukkanen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Chen References: <4254EE05.8000302@soundflows.com> <20050407192714.GA3678@osiris.chen.org.nz> <4256298D.7080704@soundflows.com> <20050408074457.GA5989@osiris.chen.org.nz> <42563AAC.9060203@soundflows.com> <20050408094542.GA6528@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20050408094542.GA6528@osiris.chen.org.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial console connection problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:27:41 -0000 Jonathan Chen wrote: >On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:02:52AM +0300, Jani Luukkanen wrote: > >[...] > > >>Ok, I presume would have to disable the "Serial terminals" section with >>entries such as; >>ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" ansi off secure ? >> >> > >Yes. You need to make sure that the 4th column says "off" on the 4.10 >machine; and make sure that they say "yes" on the 5.3 machine that >you're connecting to. Make sure you do a "kill -HUP 1" on both boxes >so that the system rescans /etc/ttys. > > > Ok, will try that, thanks. Although the host machine should be able to accept connections without anything enabled from the OS side. >>The fact that the 5.3 box bios has the built-in serial terminal feature >>enabled doesnt affect to this one? >>In sense that it should enable the possibility to even make bios changes >>or install OS wherever text mode is available. (Main idea of the thing >>is to ensure availability of the other machine) >> >> > > > Sorry for confusing explanation. The board has built in serial console feature, which you can turn on from bios. This allows you to access the machine through serial port no matter in what condition the machine would be. (Hanging in the boot-phase or kernel dead) Option has been set up so that the serial console replaces one of the comports. (In this case it would be replacing Com1 in the 5.3 machine) 4.10 is of course configured with ordinary serial ports so that it would have access to the serial terminal of the other machine. Might be this is irrelevant but just wondering does BSD need in that case some special conf for this purpose or just needs replacing the getty settings. (Previously with 4.10 configuration i managed to connect through minicom) >I'm not sure what you're saying here. Most machines come with >serial-ports; so yes, you can enable them to accept gettys so that you >can access them remotely by using a serial cable. > >Cheers. > > Thanks, Jani