On 2006/02/28 16:36, Gustavo Rios wrote: > i am trying to set my desktop serial console in order to be able to > have serial access to my soekris box.
Soekris BIOS default is 19200 baud. Try cu -l cua00 -s 19200. If you see nothing at all, make sure you've got the correct cables and/or adapters - you want a null modem adapter or cable, not a gender changer. If you see garbled characters (possibly corrupting your terminal display afterwards) the speed's probably wrong. You'll probably save time and trouble to set your serial devices to 9600baud. It's fast enough for consoles, serial ports are mostly fast enough to keep up with it without handshaking (my old laptop excepted), and is the closest thing to a standard speed. Why Soekris chose 19200 I'll never know. > # stty -f /dev/tty00 rows 24 OpenBSD follows the SunOS convention: - tty is for terminals - cua is the callout device for outgoing connections The difference is explained in tty(4) [not tty(1)]. > As you can see, the number of rows did not changed. Don't worry about the number of rows - I imagine you'll be using ssh for most work, won't you? > Another questions: do i need to have the same speed on both sides? Yes (unless you have the misfortune to deal with an unbuffered v23 modem which is fairly unlikely this side of the 1990's). If you haven't used much serial before there may be a bit of learning involved but it's fairly straightforward..
