From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 16 10:24:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75DFE16A407 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:24:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from smtp.utwente.nl (smtp1.utsp.utwente.nl [130.89.2.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F191513C468 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:24:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from nox.student.utwente.nl (nox.student.utwente.nl [130.89.165.91]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l0GAOaLr025963; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:24:36 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:24:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <1168857789.5592.12.camel@joe.realss.com> In-Reply-To: <1168857789.5592.12.camel@joe.realss.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701161124.35942.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact helpdesk@ITBE.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Zhang Weiwu Subject: Re: how do I tell if my sio0 port is broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:24:41 -0000 On Monday 15 January 2007 11:43, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello List. I guess my sio0 port is broken on my Thinkpad, OS is > FreeBSD-6.1. Reason: > > 1) I have tested a null-modem serial cable is working by using it on a > dumb-terminal and a headless server. With the same cable and same > headless server, but replace dumb-terminal with my thinkpad, run > > $ tip com1 > connected > > Then, whatever key I press, nothing happens. Usually I should see login > prompt after I pressed "Enter" key. Test was done with FreeBSD Generic > kernel. > > 2) I have plugged a modem (with ordinary serial cable, not the > null-modem one) on it and run minicom. If I type 'at' I should get 'OK' > as prompt, but I didn't. The same modem and same cable work for another > Linux box. > > 3) I go to BIOS and do a serial port test, test result is "OK", but I > think bios have no knowledge if a port is broken when it's not connected > to anything at all. > > So, I think next morning I should go and check if there are PCMCIA card > that can provide an extra COM port, but before that I think I should > write this letter to the list to see what you guys would do in this > case: do you also think this looks like COM1 port is broken? > > Thank you very much for advices. > > Zhang Weiwu Did you enable the tty in /etc/ttys? For instance: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" xterm on secure See man ttys for more info. - Pieter de Goeje