On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Ido Admon <ido...@gmail.com> wrote: > dear linux-il folks, > i thought i might try here before the conserver mailing list. i have a > nice little setup of a soekris net4801 > (http://soekris.com/products/net4801.html) that serves (with a > minimal debian and mpd) as a music box. the only way to communicate with > it other than networking (wlan or ethernet) is the serial console. > now,occasionally, i want to access the console without hooking up the > serial cable, because i'm lazy. i found conserver > (http://www.conserver.com), which is supposed to do just that - allow > remote access to the actual console device. the problem is it doesn't > work for me for whatever reason. i'm able to connect to the server, > attach to the console, but then it freezes and i can do nothing except > use the escape sequence to quit. > if i'm already connected at the same time to the console with the > cable (of course it can't really work together, this is just for > testing), i can actually see characters being sent to the console, but > with no apparent response, as if it's just displayed instead of being > taken as commands. > >
But is the console actually 'listening' ? I mean, do you have [a]getty running and everything? (see http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-setup-serial-console-on-debian-linux/) I would assume that it is, because from your wording, I understand that sometimes you do use the physical serial connection with success... but I have to ask. The next question would of course be if conserver console was set to type 'device' and the device path was set to the device file name of a serial console listening with the aforementioned getty ? And the buadrate, start/stop bit, parity, all match to what has been set on getty? -- Shimi
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