From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 18:16:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 197A637B401 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 18:16:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38CA043F85 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 18:16:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sandshrimp@attbi.com) Received: from attbi.com (12-231-125-23.client.attbi.com[12.231.125.23]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with SMTP id <20030512011621003000trree>; Mon, 12 May 2003 01:16:21 +0000 Message-ID: <3EBEF59A.70009@attbi.com> Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 18:15:06 -0700 From: Ryan Merrick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030418 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik References: <20030511122715.A903-100000@foem> In-Reply-To: <20030511122715.A903-100000@foem> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial Console woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 01:16:25 -0000 Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > On Sun, 11 May 2003, Ryan Merrick wrote: > > >>I am trying to setup a serial console between two freebsd 4.8 boxes. >>The cable is known good and has been tested on a master power with >>#tip cuaa0b. > > >> ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty Xwindow" unknown on insecure > > > You are not seting any speed. Try something like > > ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup on insecure > > or see the handbook for the above example. On the _OTHER_ machine > you sould have a line like > > cuaa0b:dv=/dev/cuaa0:br#9600:pa=none: > > in your /etc/remote to match the 9600 baud rate. > > Also Xwindow is a bit of a strange terminal for a serial console. You may > want to change that to 'dialup' or something more begin like vt52. > > >>When I try to connect I get a beep and connected message and a new >> line but I don't see anything else. I then ~^D out of tip with a [EOT] . > > > Make sure you try a few returns > > Dw > No joy, I have changed my ttys to: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" xterm on insecure #/etc/gettytab describes std.9600 as: 2|std.9600|9600-baud:\ :np:sp#9600: I am using xterm to connect with. Cuaa0c in my /etc/remote is: cuaa0c|cua0c:dv=/dev/cuaa0:br#9600:pa=none: sio is: nuke /kernel: sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 nuke /kernel: sio0: type 16550A #/var/log/aculog looks like: wrmine (Sun May 11 03:15:36 2003) call completed wrmine (Sun May 11 03:16:42 2003) call terminated wrmine (Sun May 11 16:46:02 2003) call completed What else could be holding me up ? Is there anyother diagnosic tools to help ? Ryan Merrick