I've been working on this for a bit now, but something keeps eluding me. I haven't had this problem before that I can recall, but when trying to use a serial tty, I get no login prompt.
my relevant /etc/ttys line: tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on snipped output of 'ps -ax': 9790 ?? I 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 tty00 I'm currently using an SCS160 from Logical Solutions to connect to all the serial lines on all of my servers. Just for safety's sake though, I attempted to connect from my laptop using ckermit as well...neither were a go. stty settings from the SCS160: stty --mode=dce -F /dev/ttyB12 9600 buffer -parenb -parodd cs8 -cstopb -inpck ignbrk ignpar -iexten clocal -istrip -opost -onlcr time 5 ixon ixoff -crtscts ckermit settings from laptop running Linux: set line /dev/ttyS0 set speed 9600 set carrier-watch off both programs actually establish a connection and I can type all day long, but I get nothing back -- no login prompt, no warnings, no errors. At first I thought that the TTY might just be timing out from receiving bad text, but I left it there overnight to no avail. if anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks. dmesg output follows: OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Oct 10 14:19:36 CDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 3 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS H,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,EST,CNXT-ID cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1500 MHz (1420 mV): unknown EST cpu, no changes possible real mem = 1071091712 (1045988K) avail mem = 970633216 (947884K) using 4278 buffers containing 53657600 bytes (52400K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(12) BIOS, date 02/27/06, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfa000 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown apm0: flags 70102 dobusy 1 doidle 1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 3.0 @ 0xf0000/0xcb24 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfc9f0/288 (16 entries) pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 9 10 12 pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82801FB LPC" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #6 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x9400! 0xcc000/0x4000! 0xd0000/0x1000 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel E7221 MCH Host" rev 0x05 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel E7221 PCIE" rev 0x05 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ppb1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PCIE-PCIE" rev 0x09 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 twe0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "3ware Escalade IDE RAID" rev 0x01: irq 12 twe0: Escalade V1.3 scsibus0 at twe0: 16 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <3WARE, Host drive #00, > SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 76318MB, 76318 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 156299440 sec total "Intel IOxAPIC" rev 0x09 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 not configured vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel E7221 Video" rev 0x05: aperture at 0xd1a00000, size 0x8000000 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x03 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x03 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 bge0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5721" rev 0x11, BCM5750 B1 (0x4101): irq 5, address 00:30:48:89:70:56 brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0 ppb4 at pci0 dev 28 function 3 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x03 pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 bge1 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5721" rev 0x11, BCM5750 B1 (0x4101): irq 10, address 00:30:48:89:70:57 brgphy1 at bge1 phy 1: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0 uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 9 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 10 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 5 usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 12 usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 uhub3: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 9 usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub4 at usb4 uhub4: Intel EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered ppb5 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA AGP" rev 0xd3 pci6 at ppb5 bus 6 ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801FB LPC" rev 0x03: PM disabled pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801FB IDE" rev 0x03: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <TEAC, CD-W224EA, E.0G> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives) pciide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801FR SATA" rev 0x03: DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI pciide1: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801FB SMBus" rev 0x03: irq 10 iic0 at ichiic0 lm1 at iic0 addr 0x2f: W83782D rev D isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 biomask ff65 netmask ff65 ttymask ffe7 pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled dkcsum: sd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on sd0a rootdev=0x400 rrootdev=0xd00 rawdev=0xd02 thanks in advance. ryanc -- Ryan Corder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems Engineer, NovaSys Health LLC. 501-219-4444 ext. 646 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]