From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 4 5: 2:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta03.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B2937B71A for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 05:02:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thyerm@camtech.net.au) Received: from camtech.net.au ([203.28.1.220]) by mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20010304130251.URTK2527.mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au@camtech.net.au>; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 00:02:51 +1100 Message-ID: <3AA23DD5.38CD01D6@camtech.net.au> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 23:36:29 +1030 From: Matthew Thyer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with sio in -current ... possible cause of hangs? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Morning all ... > > I'm trying to get my serial console to work on my desktop, and > appear to be failing miserably at even just getting it to accept a 'getty' > serial connection, let alone serial console ... It's not that hard as long as you stick to certain essentials: 1) Dont try to run at any speed other than 9600 unless your prepared to read the archives and maintain things bwteen builds. 2) Dont use the serial port for anything else, no getty, no mouse (if you dont have enough com ports because you have a serial modem and a serial mouse you should just get yourself a cheap PS/2 mouse). 3) Maybe add the following line to your kernel options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER # A BREAK on a comconsole goes to DDB 4) Then just create /boot.conf containing just "-h" without the double quotes. Then you can easily turn it off by renaming that file. And yes there is no problem connecting it to another box and running something like minicom to use the console. Oh, you might want the grounds connected pin1 -> pin1 but make sure the earth connections on your power outlets work or you'll get what I had once where my whole computer room (computers on a string of powerboards) was trying to earth itself through the signal ground to my wyse50 in the lounge room!!!! I didn't realise until I blew one of the serial ports on my old P90. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message