From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 26 14:07:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63F216A400 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:07:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [204.107.90.128]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A681313C44C for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:07:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (dpc6747145123.direcpc.com [67.47.145.123]) (authenticated bits=0) by vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l2QE7Clu085885 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:07:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (localhost.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [127.0.0.1]) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2QE6xDl048996 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:07:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: (from tbohml@localhost) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id l2QE6xLX048994 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:06:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tbohml) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" Message-Id: <200703261406.l2QE6xLX048994@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:06:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Is there a way from serial TTY to get system attention? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:07:20 -0000 Hi, I have a Soekris 4801 I bought about a year + 1/2 ago. It runs FreeBSD (5.5) off a CF card with a USB flash to help it. It ran great for 10 months, but over the last 8 months its been "locking up" on me. I put that in quotes because I'm not sure if its the OS or the unit. I do see POWER on and the NET light blinking. No ERROR or DISK. When I try to serial tty in, I get nothing. Is there any way anyone knows to find out if the OS has gone south, or the unit is not operating properly. Is there some sort of key sequence to ask FreeBSD if its running or to give SOME sort of life or something? My only access to it is via a serial TTY. Thanks, Tuc