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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!newsie.wis.com!gbl From: gbl@uscyber.com (Gordon B Lugauer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Need help with serial console Date: 20 Mar 1996 19:44:44 GMT Organization: We ain't *cheese* folk 'round here Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4ipn7c$79h@newsie.wis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: muffin.wis.com Ok, I'm pretty well confused on this one. What I want is a serial console- where I can hang a terminal or a modem of of a serial port and receive console i/o. I tried kernels with the COMCONSOLE=0, with and without the COMCNADDR="0x3f8", options set, for both serial ports, to no avail. Yes, the console output is redirected, but my laptop-running-kermit terminal doesn't see a thing. Same thing if I try to have a getty listening on /dev/tty00 or /dev/tty01- the getty process is running, but I can't see anything from the terminal. Ok, so the serial ports perhaps aren't working? Nope, I can hang a modem off of either one and dial out (as I am doing now). Ok, so my terminal doesn't work. Nope, I can hang the modem off of that and it flies just fine. Parity? I have both ports set to none. I don't know. I have done this trick long ago on an old sun, yet it seems to me that there is something fundamental that I am missing, perhaps perculiar to bsdi. If you can help me figure this out, and find yourself in Milwaukee, I'l buy you a beer. Thanks, -Gordon B Lugauer, gbl@uscyber.com