From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 19:38:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (frogmorton.shire.net [204.228.145.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C35137B40A for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 19:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [68.64.98.90] (helo=localhost) by hobbiton.shire.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #8) id 179Gat-0000Ck-00; Sat, 18 May 2002 22:38:47 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 22:38:42 -0400 Subject: Re: serial port logins and console problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To: eps+fbsdques@mooseriver.com (Eric P. Scott) From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" In-Reply-To: <200205182044.g4IKis1V015479@gdead.mooseriver.com> Message-Id: <88A65AD6-6AD1-11D6-934E-000502EDE760@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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