Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:02:02 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Dan D Niles <dan@more.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial Port Problems Message-ID: <quhhu2thik3heht33en3ncp27t517v1ibn@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <1172784439.14922.47.camel@jane.spg.more.net> References: <1172784439.14922.47.camel@jane.spg.more.net>
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On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:27:19 -0600, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > >More Dell 2950 woes. > >I use serial ports to manage my FreeBSD machines remotely. I've never >had any problems until now. I've installed FreeBSD 6.2 on a Dell 2950. > >The install goes without problems over the serial port. After the >reboot, I get the typical: > >FreeBSD/i386 (test.host.net) (ttyd0) > >login: > >and I can log in just fine. If I disconnect and come back later >(sometimes), or if I hit return without entering a login name (always) >it starts spitting out junk like: > I get similar strange results as well on Server Works BIOS based machines. I usually talk to them through a pm25. For me, I have to make sure flow control is off on both ends (no software, no hardware). Also, login gets confused if you start with an enter for some reason. I can generally recover from this seemingly hung state with a bunch of CTRL+d's. Not sure if it will help you, but the symptons are somewhat like what I see. Whats odd is that it all works just fine from the loader prompt and if I boot into single user mode. But soon as getty/login take over, its very picky. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)
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