It was a peachy Monday, May 20 2013, 06:02:58 when shimi <linux...@shimi.net> wrote:
> 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 hi shimi, thanks. yes, i'm sorry if i wasn't clear enough. the console is working flawlessly when physically connected. here's my conserver.cf (192.168.43.168 is my laptop): root@krzysztof:~# cat /etc/conserver/conserver.cf # The character '&' in logfile names are substituted with the console # name. # config * { } default * { logfile /var/log/conserver/&.log; timestamp ""; rw *; } console serial { master localhost; type device; device /dev/ttyS0; baud 19200; parity none; } access * { trusted 192.168.43.168; trusted 127.0.0.1; } and the relevant line in inittab: root@krzysztof:~# grep ttyS0 /etc/inittab T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 19200 vt100 and what setserial says: root@krzysztof:~# setserial /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 thanks again! ido _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
