From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jul 24 9:28:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54DE37B958 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:28:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA17525; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:28:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA62947; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:28:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:28:34 -0400 (EDT) To: "Jung, Michael" Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SRM Serial Console In-Reply-To: <921763828F4BD4118D7D00805FEDF35810C5B8@EXCHANGE1> References: <921763828F4BD4118D7D00805FEDF35810C5B8@EXCHANGE1> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14716.28047.505415.549625@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jung, Michael writes: > Ok, I know i'm being brain dead here but... > > I've gotten serial output from SRM by issuing > "set console serial" and unplugging the keyboard > - however - I does not take input from my serial tty. > > Does SRM require special hardware flow-control ? > > Thanks again - According to http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/Alpha/systems/as2100/docs/firmware_guide.ps there's an environment variable called 'tt_allow_login' It says that if you're using a serial console, setting it to 1 allows you to login on com1. Maybe this is the problem? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message