Hello, I was just looking this webpage when I got your answer ; as Michael Lucas didn't talk about this file in his talk about consoles, I though console ports were active by default... (but I found this file in this book's index, however)
So, tty00 is "tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on secure", but it still does not work (I tried 19200 also). At the boot prompt, when I type "set tty", there is some sort of autocompletion, that lists me only pc0, no com port is present. Does that mean the kernel does not recognize the serial ports ? I'm still running generic kernel plus RAIDframe. My serial port should be detected by the kernel, shouldn't they ? any guess would be neat, I really do feel unconfident with serial ports :-/ Would a dmesg be of any use in this case ? Thanks nicodache On 8/20/07, Jim Razmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * nicodache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070820 15:26]: > > Hello, > > > > I'm almost done configuring some little 1U server for my own > > edutainment, and I'm busy trying to configure the serial console. > > I have the excellent book of Michael W. Lucas calld "Absolute > > OpenBSD", and he tells about serial console, that by entering "set tty > > com0", we can access the machine from any other machine that has a > > serial port, and a port monitoring software. > > I use a windows computer for it, only because I know this machine's > > serial port works, and the configuration I set up for my cisco (which > > is the same config as the one for openbsd) works in that machine. > > However, I can't get my serial port on my server to work ; I type in > > set tty com0, and nothing nowhere ! It even seems this server does not > > boot up ! (I can't find it with an nmap -sP with serial on booting, > > while I can otherwise). > > The server is an old compaq server : Proliant DL 320 (G1), with only 1 > > serial port on the motherboard. > > > > Is there anyway for me to check my com port is detected and working, > > before I put my server into a datacenter ? > > > > Thanks > > > > nicodache > > > > This doesn't answer your question directly, but you could take a look in > the FAQ here: > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#SerCon > > and change the relevant line in /etc/ttys to something like: > > tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.19200" vt220 on secure > > If you don't enable the console, 'set tty com0' doesn't help. > > HTH, > Jim
