From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 22 10:39:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pallas.veritas.com (pallas.veritas.com [204.177.156.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11AB157E4 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:39:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aaron@sigma.veritas.com) Received: from megami.veritas.com (megami.veritas.com [192.203.46.101]) by pallas.veritas.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA21365; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:40:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sigma.veritas.com([192.203.46.125]) (2414 bytes) by megami.veritas.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:smart_host/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:39:12 -0700 (PDT) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #3 built 1999-Jan-25) Received: from sigma (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sigma.veritas.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA13462; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:39:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aaron@sigma.veritas.com) Message-Id: <199906221739.KAA13462@sigma.veritas.com> From: Aaron Smith To: "Bill G." Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial Console Wierdness In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:31:33 EDT." Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:39:11 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 'cu' hangs up really easily. use 'kermit' (it's in ports) and the hangup problem will disappear. i tried to find an option to cu to modify its hangup behavior but to no avail. your second problem sounds like it could be terminal sizing -- have you tried this with a default 80x24 window, set and exported TERM properly, etc? i was not able to get my console to work properly past 38400 baud; i am not sure why. 38400 has been just fine speed-wise for me, though, so i'm not that upset. :) (also see http://www.arctic.org/~aaron/tips/freebsd-serial-console) aaron On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:31:33 EDT, "Bill G." writes: >I got a serial console working on COM2, to which I have connected >another FreeBSD box. I connect with 'cu' fine, but I'm running into >a couple of problems which I haven't been able to find and answer >for. > >o When I connect, when the machine is first turned on, I get > disconnected twice during the boot up sequence (cu reports > Got hangup signal) -- looks like when the sio1 device is > probed, and also when getty runs. > >o 9600 was rather slow, so I changed it to 115200, which worked, > however I had a few problems with terminal display -- any > output that scrolls down past the bottom of the screen gets > 'garbled'. (IE, I run clear; ls -l / -- the first 23 lines > look ok then it gets messed up). Same results from console > mode of my client machine and from an xterm. I thought that > 115200 might be too fast, so I slowed it down to 38400, but > same trouble. I'm not sure if this occured at 9600. > >Any thoughts / ideas / suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message