From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 01:01:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0915116A400 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 01:01:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E1613C49D for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 01:01:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from BLUELAPIS.sentex.ca (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l2311mSC099566; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:01:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: Dan D Niles Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:02:02 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1172784439.14922.47.camel@jane.spg.more.net> In-Reply-To: <1172784439.14922.47.camel@jane.spg.more.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial Port Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:01:50 -0000 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)