It was a peachy Monday, May 20 2013, 00:14:42 when Ido Admon <ido...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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 ok, i'm an idiot. of course /dev/ttyS0 is not the console itself but the serial device. that's not going to work. but /dev/console doesn't work either, and it seems that conserver can't actually do what i want, which is to access the local console, not some other server connected via the serial port. i'm not sure how, if at all, it can be done. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
