I have been using a USB-RS232 dongle for quite a while since DE9 connectors started going away on laptops.
Typically I use "cu -l cuaU0" to connect and everything is fine. Today I tried to use the same (dongle and command) on an old desktop to talk to a Soekris 4801. The message I got was "/dev/cuaU0: Device not configured <LF> link down" Strangely enough there was such device in /dev and I also found a stack of cua00-cua03, cuac0-cuac7 as well as the cuaU0-cuaU3 I expected to see. Trying "cu -l cua00" resulted in a response of "Connected" but there was no boot message from the working 4801. It appears that there is no traffic the other way either as I waited long enough for it to be fully booted and then did a blind login. An ssh session form another box was successfully made and I saw that there was no console login. Both the laptop and the desktop units are running the same OS - a 5.1 GENERIC beta dated around Feb 7. Any educated guesses? Sure I can use the laptop but the desktop is in my lab and should work. Obviously it "sees" the dongles, I tried both with same result. TIA, Rod *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
