Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 09:34:17 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Serial terminal issues Message-ID: <DA43F97C-31F4-49E9-B5C7-3C2B1AE3B465@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <93196E06-1775-46A4-A3E9-1C8A3B8C4E94@gmail.com> References: <383C78B1-4F16-408F-8144-63B470D0C129@gmail.com> <20130605005918.GA5709@icarus.home.lan> <93196E06-1775-46A4-A3E9-1C8A3B8C4E94@gmail.com>
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On 06/06/2013, at 4:59, Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> wrote: >> It is very possible. You should have asked Gigabyte what exact = product >> (specifically part number) to purchase that provided a >> header-to-backplane DB9 port, or if they could send you one (many = will >> for free). Always use what the mainboard vendor tells you. Always. >=20 > I contacted Gigabyte, but haven't heard from them yet. >=20 > For the Dutch readers: their website is at gigabyte.co.nl. You = absolutely don't want to go to gigabyte.nl - not safe for work, not at = all (guess where I was=85). We make our serial cables at work, it is fairly straightforward. You can = see in the manual which end of the motherboard connector is pin 1. We have ribbon cable and insulation displacement D9 & 2x5 headers on = hand though.. If you aren't certain the serial hardware works I suggest building or = buying a serial loopback connector and plugging it in. Then run.. cu -l /dev/cuXXX -s 9600 and typing and see if you get your typing echoed back. If you do then you know the serial hardware & driver are working. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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