From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 27 14: 2:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mighty.grot.org (mighty.grot.org [204.182.56.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7DA037B416 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:02:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by mighty.grot.org (Postfix, from userid 515) id 7E5185E9D; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:02:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:02:44 -0800 From: Aditya To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console vs. serial terminal Message-ID: <20020327220244.GA22461@mighty.grot.org> Reply-To: Aditya References: <20020327014305.GA81311@mighty.grot.org> <20020327120918.A85588-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020327120918.A85588-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> X-PGP-Key: http://www.grot.org/pubkey.asc X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x6405D8D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message