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From: Jay Nelson <jdn@qiv.com>
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Subject: Re: Console Questions..
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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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