Re: Serial console with incorrect terminal set

2011-11-16 Thread James Edwards
On Wed, November 16, 2011 14:52, J65nko wrote: > You can stop ping with : > $ pkill -TERM ping > >>From the ping man page: > > -c count >Stop after sending (and receiving) count ECHO_RESPONSE packets. >If this option is not specified, ping will operate until inter- >

Re: Serial console with incorrect terminal set

2011-11-16 Thread J65nko
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:52 PM, James Edwards wrote: > Hi All, > > I have two servers currently colocated, one running FreeBSD 8.2/amd64 , > and the other is a Sun Netra T1 that I am attempting to install FreeBSD > 8.2 on, over serial. > > When the system booted up, I was presented with a list of

Re: serial console install

2011-04-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/04/2011 23:25, Paul Macdonald wrote: > (the DC sees the installer over vga when they shoudn't, same ISO!!) > > any suggestions? > It's frequently a BIOS option to redirect the console to a serial device or not. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 26, 2009, at 18:16, Mike Tancsa wrote: Or, if you want to use loader.conf, try hw.uart.console="io:0x3f8" ---Mike That solved it! Thanks a lot!! :) Regards, Thomas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:10 PM 8/26/2009, Thomas Backman wrote: danny I already tried that (in /boot/loader.conf); it shows up in dmesg (and didn't before), but still no luck. Try adding it to /boot/device.hints eg hint.uart.0.at="isa" hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8" hint.uart.0.flags="0x10" hint.uart.0.irq="4" hin

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 26, 2009, at 18:04, Danny Braniss wrote: you need to set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10" danny I already tried that (in /boot/loader.conf); it shows up in dmesg (and didn't before), but still no luck. Regards/thanks, Thomas ___ freebsd-que

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 23, 2009, at 14:18, Thomas Backman wrote: First off: Not subscribed to this list, please make sure to Cc me if you don't reply directly. :) Anyway, I finally got my null modem cable, and plugged in in between a machine running 8.0-BETA2 and one running WinXP using Hyperterminal. My

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-24 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 23, 2009, at 23:18, Carl Chave wrote: Did you try booting with the keyboard disconnected from the FreeBSD machine? Perhaps the vidconsole is favored when a keyboard is detected? On a linux box I had, I would get serial output from Grub, lose it during kernel load and then get a login o

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-23 Thread Carl Chave
Did you try booting with the keyboard disconnected from the FreeBSD machine? Perhaps the vidconsole is favored when a keyboard is detected? On a linux box I had, I would get serial output from Grub, lose it during kernel load and then get a login once the OS was up, much like what you describe.

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-23 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 23, 2009, at 20:25, Tim Judd wrote: On 8/23/09, Thomas Backman wrote: First off: Not subscribed to this list, please make sure to Cc me if you don't reply directly. :) Anyway, I finally got my null modem cable, and plugged in in between a machine running 8.0-BETA2 and one running W

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-23 Thread Tim Judd
On 8/23/09, Thomas Backman wrote: > First off: Not subscribed to this list, please make sure to Cc me if > you don't reply directly. :) > > Anyway, I finally got my null modem cable, and plugged in in between a > machine running 8.0-BETA2 and one running WinXP using Hyperterminal. > > My settings:

Re: serial console - no go

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:43 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> > >> what i do wrong? > >> > > Have you checked flag setting on sio? > > > ># dmesg | grep "sio.*flags" > >sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 > > on acpi0 > > yes. i then tried to chan

Re: serial console - no go

2008-08-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what i do wrong? Have you checked flag setting on sio? # dmesg | grep "sio.*flags" sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 yes. i then tried to change flags to 0x20 (force console) - still doesn't work sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitm

Re: serial console - no go

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 22:00 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > i put -h in /boot.config > > FreeBSD loaders starts with serial console fine, load kernel, boots and... > kernel uses VGA as console. > > what i do wrong? > Have you checked flag setting on sio? # dmesg | grep "sio.*flags"

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-30 Thread Dieter
> actually instructs you to remove the keyboard. I think this is for some systems with buggy firmware? For other systems with different buggy firmware you should leave the "video" keyboard connected, at least if you need to get into the firmware's "setup" mode. > So is there someone who can give

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Scott I. Remick wrote: Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). I've seen http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.htm

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:32:46 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Can't you just run xconsole? Doesn't help me if xconsole is hidden by another window at the time of the halt. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:01:54 -0500, Ken Stevenson wrote: > I was trying to accomplish the same thing a couple weeks ago and > somebody recommended the following: > > touch /var/log/console.log > > Edit /etc/syslog.conf and uncomment the line that begins with > console.info. > > Reboot (you mi

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:21:23 +, Robert Slade wrote: > I can't help you directly, but have you looked at the error logs? they > should give you a clue, especially Xorg.log Last few times I remember looking, there was nothing logged. This lead me to believe that the lockup happened too fast for

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 29/01/06 Scott I. Remick said: > Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error > messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around > the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). Can't you just run xconsole? Mike -- Michael P. So

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Ken Stevenson
Scott I. Remick wrote: Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). I've seen http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.htm

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:39, Scott I. Remick wrote: > Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error > messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around > the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). > > I've seen http://www.freebsd.org

Re: Serial Console Help Needed

2005-11-29 Thread Brian McCann
On 11/28/05, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/29/05, Brian McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. I'm having a heck of a time trying to get a serial console > > setup on 5.4. I've recompiled the boot blocks to set the speed to > > 19200, added "set console="comconsole" " to /boot/loa

Re: Serial Console Help Needed

2005-11-29 Thread Brian McCann
On 11/28/05, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/29/05, Brian McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. I'm having a heck of a time trying to get a serial console > > setup on 5.4. I've recompiled the boot blocks to set the speed to > > 19200, added "set console="comconsole" " to /boot/loa

Re: Serial Console Help Needed

2005-11-28 Thread Jay
On 11/29/05, Brian McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. I'm having a heck of a time trying to get a serial console > setup on 5.4. I've recompiled the boot blocks to set the speed to > 19200, added "set console="comconsole" " to /boot/loader.rc, turned on > /dev/ttyd0 and ttyd1 in /etc/tty

Re: Serial console prob on amd64

2005-11-24 Thread Freminlins
Hello Arden, On 11/24/05, arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has this ever worked? If its a new box could be a hardware prob could try a > loop-back test if you have the wrap plugs Yes, on Solaris 10 before I wiped it today. I just can't see what I am doing wrong. During the boot up sequence I ca

Re: Serial console prob on amd64

2005-11-24 Thread arden
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:28:54 +0100 Freminlins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a dual amd64 machine on which serial console is not working > properly. I've configured dozens of Intel machines without a problem. > > I have set up boot.config and /etc/ttys. If I boot the machine some

Re: Serial console capable BIOSes?

2005-07-11 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 11:17:14AM -0700, Steve Brown wrote: > Does anyone have recommendations for motherboards (P3 or P4) with good > BIOS serial console support that plays nicely with FreeBSD running a > serial console on the same port? Basically, I'd like to monitor the > pre-BSD boot process

Re: Serial console capable BIOSes?

2005-07-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/3/05, Steve Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have recommendations for motherboards (P3 or P4) with good > BIOS serial console support that plays nicely with FreeBSD running a > serial console on the same port? Basically, I'd like to monitor the > pre-BSD boot process and the BSD

Re: serial console

2005-05-05 Thread Kees Plonsz
Paul T. Root wrote on Thursday 05 May 2005 20:16: > I'm trying to get a HP Vectra up without keyboard > or monitor with Serial A as the console. > > I looked in the Handbook and FAQ, all it talks about > is for an install. > > The worst part is, I have 1 machine running this way > (Intel motherb

Re: serial console

2005-05-05 Thread WMC
At 02:16 PM 5/5/2005, Paul T. Root wrote: trying to get a HP Vectra up without keyboard or monitor with Serial A as the console. What I've tried (loader.conf) doesn't seem to work. Shot in the dark, as I've never messed with serial much. But I think you have to enable it in /etc/ttys for it to w

Re: Serial console connection problem

2005-04-08 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:26:02PM +0300, Jani Luukkanen wrote: [...] > Sorry for confusing explanation. The board has built in serial console > feature, which you can turn on from bios. This allows you to access the > machine through serial port no matter in what condition the machine > would

Re: Serial console connection problem

2005-04-08 Thread Jani Luukkanen
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:02:52AM +0300, Jani Luukkanen wrote: [...] Ok, I presume would have to disable the "Serial terminals" section with entries such as; ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" ansioff secure ? Yes. You need to make sure that the 4th column sa

Re: Serial console connection problem

2005-04-08 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:45:42PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:02:52AM +0300, Jani Luukkanen wrote: > > [...] > > Ok, I presume would have to disable the "Serial terminals" section with > > entries such as; > > ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" ansioff secur

Re: Serial console connection problem

2005-04-08 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:02:52AM +0300, Jani Luukkanen wrote: [...] > Ok, I presume would have to disable the "Serial terminals" section with > entries such as; > ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" ansioff secure ? Yes. You need to make sure that the 4th column says "off" on the 4.10

Re: Serial console connection problem

2005-04-08 Thread Jani Luukkanen
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:49:49AM +0300, Jani Luukkanen wrote: [...] Weird, fstat shows nothing on the port; [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # fstat /dev/cuaa0 USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W NAME [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # And yes, this is proble

Re: Serial console connection problem

2005-04-08 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:49:49AM +0300, Jani Luukkanen wrote: [...] > Weird, fstat shows nothing on the port; > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # fstat /dev/cuaa0 > USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W NAME > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # > > And yes, this is problem is on

Re: Serial console connection problem

2005-04-07 Thread Jani Luukkanen
Hi Jonathan and thanks for reply! Jonathan Chen wrote: I have an issue with serial console connection with two FreeBSD machines (Both with Intel SE7210TP1-E motherboard, other configured as "host" from bios and other has ordinary com ports which are connected with normal tested serial cable). H

Re: Serial console connection problem

2005-04-07 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:23:33AM +0300, Jani Luukkanen wrote: > Hi! > > I have an issue with serial console connection with two FreeBSD machines > (Both with Intel SE7210TP1-E motherboard, other configured as "host" > from bios and other has ordinary com ports which are connected with > norma

Re: Serial console

2005-03-17 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:07:07AM +0100, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Am Dienstag, 15. M?rz 2005 12:37 schrieb Daniel Bye: > [...] > > The machine boots - you see the BIOS POST, the SATA controller comes up, > > then you see FreeBSD's boot messages on the console. As soon as the > > kernel launches, w

Re: Serial console

2005-03-16 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 15. März 2005 12:37 schrieb Daniel Bye: [...] > The machine boots - you see the BIOS POST, the SATA controller comes up, > then you see FreeBSD's boot messages on the console. As soon as the > kernel launches, we get the login: prompt and then nothing. So, we know > the hardware work

Re: Serial console weirdness

2004-10-27 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 26. Oktober 2004 18:18 schrieb Mark Cullen: > Mark Cullen wrote: > > Artem Kazakov wrote: > >>Mark Cullen wrote: > >>>Ok, I am having a bit of trouble setting up a serial console login. The > >>>cable is attached to com1, heres my /etc/ttys > >>> > >>># The 'dialup' keyword identifies

Re: Serial console weirdness

2004-10-26 Thread Mark Cullen
Mark Cullen wrote: Artem Kazakov wrote: Mark Cullen wrote: Ok, I am having a bit of trouble setting up a serial console login. The cable is attached to com1, heres my /etc/ttys # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" dialup o

Re: Serial console weirdness

2004-10-26 Thread Mark Cullen
Artem Kazakov wrote: Mark Cullen wrote: Ok, I am having a bit of trouble setting up a serial console login. The cable is attached to com1, heres my /etc/ttys # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" dialup on secure Now, my pr

Re: Serial Console Install over Lan?

2004-08-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
Kaboofa wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup a headless FreeBSD machine (5.1 Release Cd version), using a serial console, but instead of using a serial port, is it possible to use a lan cable instead? Or, is there anyway to set up a ssh server when the installer program is booted? Thank you, Tom Norr

Re: Serial console stops working at password prompt

2003-11-30 Thread Arien Vijn
FYI, issue has been is solved. Created a user with a blank password so I would directly start a shell. This way I found out that there was a mismatch between terminal-settings :-/ Arien On 29-nov-03, at 14:42PM, Arien Vijn wrote: Greetings, I do have an issue with FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE (i386)

Re: Serial Console Port Settings ?

2003-06-17 Thread Dancho Penev
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 05:29:03AM -0700, Dave Bloodgood wrote: From: "Dave Bloodgood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 05:29:03 -0700 Subject: Serial Console Port Settings ? In order to trouble shoot booting a newer pc, I have tried to configure a serial console..