Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 22:38:42 -0400 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: eps+fbsdques@mooseriver.com (Eric P. Scott) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serial port logins and console problems Message-ID: <88A65AD6-6AD1-11D6-934E-000502EDE760@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <200205182044.g4IKis1V015479@gdead.mooseriver.com>
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On Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 04:44 , Eric P. Scott wrote: > Ignore what the Handbook says. It's misleading, at best. > > The "correct" way to enable this **on a fresh installation of > FreeBSD** is to install either the "comconsole" package or its > port, e.g.: > > cd /usr/ports/sysutils/comconsole > make install Ok, I did this and rebooted both machines > > You'll note this enables getty on console, *not* ttyd0. Yes, it does enable the getty on console on both machines. > > The settings in the GENERIC kernel configuration are correct > for most people; you shouldn't need to change them. I still have the same problems. Neither machine has a keyboard attached. Both have /boot.config with -P . Both are cross-wired with a null modem cable from sio1 <-> sio0 so that I should be able to monitor each machine from the others sio1 (/dev/cuaa1) Machine A does not see any console messages from B. You can log into the console of B however. But it is a blind login. You do NOT get any feedback. You do not get any sort shell feedback, nor machine login prompts, or anything. But since I know that the first thing is to ask for a username and password, I type those and do get a login. From an SSH sesson on B, after the blind login from A to B, in the "who" command, I see: chad console May 18 20:33 I can also type logout and that process disappears. The other machine has the opposite problem. Machine B does see the console messsages from A. I can reboot A, and on B, using % cat /dev/cuaa1 > file; tail -f file or from kermit or minicom watching the serial port output, I see the boot messages, I see the login banner (and the tty is identified as "console" in the login banner). However, I cannot log in. No matter what I type in minicom or kermit, nothing happens, not even a blind login or anything. Any other hints or suggestions welcome. Thanks Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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