Hi, Thanks. I'll try your idea later today :).
There are three entries for shell terminals in inittab. One confuses me "tty/0". Any idea what that entry is for? Wiz p.s.- my last change, yesterday, modifying preinit gave a kernel panic and I had to rebuild the whole mess. The joys of embedded programming :). On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Spudz76 wrote: > You probably need to comment out the console entries for the serial > port(s) in /etc/inittab and then try again. That should free up the > port for use with minicom (or any other serial app). > > You have to reboot to have the change take effect, unless you customize > your busybox (compile your own image) to allow a kill signal to force an > inittab reload. > > Also, of course, doing this disables the serial console completely > (after boot messages, no shell), so don't biff your networking setup or > you'll be forced to reflash. > > On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 16:47 -0500, RHS Linux User wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On a Meraki mini, Atheros ar2315 SOC > > > > I am trying take over the serial port as in: > > > > minicom -s [/dev/ttyS0]. Lock file gets made OK. > > > > I notice there are MANY serial port related entries > > in System.map (serial, tty, uart, etc.) And several /dev entries. > > > > I have yet to figure out what to do so minicom can talk over the SOC > > serial port??!! > > > > It "ought" to be simple ;-). > > > > Has anyone found a simple way to do this? > > > > Thanks, > > Wiz > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openwrt-devel mailing list > > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
