From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 2 18:54:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.hub.org (SHW39-29.accesscable.net [24.138.39.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD93637B718 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by mobile.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f232r7j00463; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 22:53:07 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: mobile.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 22:53:06 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Stacy Millions Cc: Subject: Re: VAIO Z505 SuperSlim Pro and Serial Ports ... In-Reply-To: <3AA05721.B6657C09@millions.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Stacy Millions wrote: > The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > I'm trying to use my serial port on my VAIO as serial console for my > > desktop, so that I can debug a hanging ... this thing has a > > 'replicator bar' that has a serial port on it, > > My Z505S the port replicator bar, as well. I have used the serial > console to to debug a crash as well as running a getty on it with > no problems. > > It is sio0 which is cuaa0 or ttyd0 depending on your needs. Works > fine for me. Just so it gets into the archives ... it was pointed out to me that the problem was probably that the device was disabled in the BIOS ... once enabled, the port no longer hangs the machine, now I just have to find a real NULL modem cable :( thanks :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message