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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2000 02:49:44 -0800
From:      "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us>
To:        <cjclark@home.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Serial Console Speed
Message-ID:  <000801bf77a2$62a5bee0$0200000a@danco.home>

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Ah ha...a 'make clean' prior to compiling the boot blocks did the trick!

Thanks for your help with this, and the moral support!

--Dan

**  The thing I like most about Windows 98 is...
**  You can download FreeBSD with it!


-----Original Message-----
From: Crist J. Clark <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To: Dan O'Connor <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us>
Cc: cjclark@home.com <cjclark@home.com>; freebsd-questions
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Sunday, February 13, 2000 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Serial Console Speed


>On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 02:30:02PM -0800, Dan O'Connor wrote:
>> >Did you change the speeds in /etc/ttys?
>>
>> Yes. Here's the line from /etc/ttys:
>>
>>     ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.19200"  vt220   on  secure
>>
>> Anywhere else I'm missing?
>
>That actually should be all you need to get the serial console
>working. All of the other stuff you mentioned (BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED,
>etc.) are all just to get the boot messages onto the serial console.
>
>If you have the above in /etc/ttys and either HUPped init(8) or booted
>with this /etc/ttys, first double check that the settings at the other
>end match up. And then... *sigh* I guess you need to dig into
>/etc/gettytab and make sure that the settings there match the settings
>on the "terminal."
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Crist J. Clark <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
>> To: Dan O'Connor <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us>
>> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
>> Date: Sunday, February 13, 2000 2:00 PM
>> Subject: Re: Serial Console Speed
>>
>>
>> >On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 09:25:53AM -0800, Dan O'Connor wrote:
>> >> Greetings, all!
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to set up my FreeBSD box with a serial console over a
>> null-modem
>> >> cable to my Windows box running SecureCRT (serial connection, not
ssh).
>> My
>> >> goal is to get rid of the monitor and keyboard on my FreeBSD box to
>> free-up
>> >> some desk space.
>> >>
>> >> I've followed the advice in section 13.5 of the FreeBSD Handbook and
>> >> /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.serial, and I have it working, but I
can't
>> >> get the connection to work at anything other than the default 9600
bps.
>> >>
>> >> I've added 'BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=19200' in /etc/make.conf, recompiled
>> the
>> >> boot blocks and installed them using 'disklabel -B wd0'. I also added
>> >> 'options CONSPEED=19200' to my kernel config file and recompiled the
>> kernel.
>> >>
>> >> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. TIA,
>> >
>> >Did you change the speeds in /etc/ttys?
>> >--
>> >Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com
>> >
>> >
>
>--
>Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com
>
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