From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 15 12:29:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EFE16A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:29:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dd2626.kasserver.com (dd2626.kasserver.com [81.209.184.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51D143D1D for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:29:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from outi@bytephobia.de) Received: from duality.bytephobia.de (pD95F08EE.dip.t-dialin.net [217.95.8.238]) by dd2626.kasserver.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2376A6F655; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:29:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 13:21:01 +0200 From: Patrick Hurrelmann To: Hiroharu Tamaru Message-Id: <20040815132101.61348f09@duality.bytephobia.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20040814073928.DEBD367F83@gunfright.epcdirect.co.uk> Organization: private X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to receive BIOS console redirection? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: outi@bytephobia.de List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:29:56 -0000 On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:09:12 +0900 Hiroharu Tamaru wrote: > At Sat, 14 Aug 2004 02:08:18 +0900, Hiroharu Tamaru wrote: > > > I have a Supermicrio P4SC8 motherboard and I want to receive > > its BIOS console redirect output on another FreeBSD box. > > The motherboard is checking for *something* to see if a > > serial terminal is attached, and rejects the link. > > > > I tried 'tip com1' with an /etc/remote setup of > > > > com1:dv=/dev/cuaa0:br#115200:pa=none: > > > > and ports/comms/kermit with > > > > set line /dev/cuaa0 > > set speed 115200 > > set carrier-watch off > > connect > > > > and in both cases, the motherboard times out and abandons > > the redirection. > > Thank you for those who replied to me off-list. > > Encouraged by some working examples, I retried the > investigation, and now I figured out what was wrong with my > setup. > > The motherboard seems to be checking for some terminal > escape sequences. At first I was working on FreeBSD console > (TERM=cons25), and that was the cause of failure. Then I > tried it from xterm, and it successfully started to > redirect. But that was not the end of the story ;-p > > With xterm I could get console messages redirected, but I > couldn't enter the BIOS setup menus. It was not reading the > "DEL" key that I typed. So then I changed to screen > (ports/misc/screen), and finally I can enter the BIOS menues > and all. > > So to summarize, when I work inside screen, both tip and > kermit worked well with the config shown above. > cu -s 115200 -l /dev/cuaa0 > also worked well. I was also sugested with minicom, but > that I could not configure well to get everything working > (it has many features and I didn't look into it that much). > > I still cannot enter the Intel NIC's setup menu, which is > initiated with Ctrl-S. And for 3ware RAID BIOS (entered > with Alt-3), the menu is entered (as verified on video > console), but the output is not redirected to the serial > port, though, the keys I type on the serial side are sent > and recoganized by the RAID BIOS. But I'd say those are > another story, and I'm happy that I can fiddle with the main > BIOS setup for now. > > Thank you very much for your help. > -- > Hiroharu Tamaru Thanks for this tip! I'll try that, as is have the same problems with my Siemens Primergy 470 and console redirection. I see all messages, but i cannot get into system bios (DEL-Key), but i get into Symbios scsi-bios, but console is not redirected. It stays on the video-terminal. Would be great to access system bios ;) -- =========================================================================== Patrick Hurrelmann | "Programming today is a race between software Mannheim, Germany | engineers striving to build bigger and better | idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying outi at bytephobia.de | to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, www.bytephobia.de | the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook