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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:02:44 -0800
From:      Aditya <aditya@grot.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: serial console vs. serial terminal
Message-ID:  <20020327220244.GA22461@mighty.grot.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020327120918.A85588-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
References:  <20020327014305.GA81311@mighty.grot.org> <20020327120918.A85588-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:14:14PM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> AFAIK FreeBSD doesn't require carrier to be asserted for getty to wake up.
> If you hit <ENTER> a few times on the tty it should give you a login
> prompt.

According to section 15.2.2.2.2, "Port Names":

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serial.html

        Call-in ports are named /dev/ttydN where N is the port number,
	starting from zero. Generally, you use the call-in port for
	terminals. Call-in ports require that the serial line assert
	the data carrier detect (DCD) signal to work.

which sounds like part of the problem I'm facing, and is in fact the problem!
So here's the pinout I had to use on an RJ45-DB9F modular adapter to get
serial connections between a Cyclades TS2000 and a PC running FreeBSD:

   Pinout for DB9 (PC-Style) Adapter
   Pin # Signal Color
   1     DCD    Orange
   2     TxD    Black
-  3     RxD    Yellow
   5     Gnd    Red

Doug, thanks for the hint, 
Adi

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