Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 10:57:41 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson <jdn@qiv.com> To: jbutt@mwci.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Console Questions.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971207105625.282A-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <199712070636.AAA02172@subcellar.mwci.net>
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Just a thought... Some PC bioses can be set to halt on errors, one of
which is a dead keyboard. It might be worth checking.
-- Jay
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, James D. Butt wrote:
>
> We have just moved from BSDI machines to FreeBSD machines..
>
> In some of our remote locations we have FreeBSD servers and when
> these servers were BSDI we un-hooked the keyboard so that they would
> redirect the console to the serial port. Well I have done quite a bit
> of searching and I am unable to find a solution to make this happen
> with freeBSD. We are running FreeBSD 2.2.5-release.
>
> I compiled the following into the kernel:
>
> options COMCONSOLE
> options FORCE_COMCONSOLE
>
> On the test machine that I did this on it locked on boot..I think
> that I read that this is the reason that they took it out...
>
> Now I tried to get a normal terminal session to come up..
>
> We have com1 on all of our servers hooked to Livingston portmasters
> just incase we have some problem that we would need to access the
> machine that way..
>
> I know that there are no cable problems.. I can attach to the port on
> the portmaster and see the echoed characters in minicom on the
> FreeBSD box.. For some reason the FreeBSD box will not spawn login
> prompt.. When I use stty -f /dev/ttyd0 chocol <I think that I have
> chocol wrong I have correct command written down at work> anyway this
> would make the port thing that it has CD... On the terminal side I
> see the login prompt pop up after I send the above command 2 times...
>
> On a ps I get
>
> 9948 d0 Is+ 0:00.03 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyd0
>
> After the login prompt pops... I can not type at all.... The only
> thing I can think is it is because their is not a constant Carrier
> Detect...
>
> My ttys looks like
>
> ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure
>
> I know that this should work.. I have the portmaster and FreeBSD Box
> connected via Null modem cable.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas??
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