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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: enabling serial logins Date: 26 Apr 1997 15:11:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5jt5uq$i8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5jsgka$1ih$1@news.fas.harvard.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39777 Daniel B Giffin <giffin@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: > .... but bootup messages don't seem very encouraging: > > Apr 9 03:35:08 meursault /kernel: sio0 not found at 0x3f8 > Apr 9 03:35:08 meursault /kernel: sio1 not found at 0x2f8 > Apr 9 03:35:08 meursault /kernel: sio2 not found at 0x3e8 > Apr 9 03:35:08 meursault /kernel: sio3 not found at 0x2e8 > > And what was the kernel expecting to find on the serial line? Nothing on the serial line, but it was expecting to find a UART chip on the ISA bus. Turn on flags 0x80 for these sio devices (after a boot -c), and see which tests they are failing. > Anyway, I went ahead and modified /etc/ttys to allow login over the > serial interfaces: Useless. The devices must be available before. Note also that you need to tell init(8) to re-read /etc/ttys by a ``kill -1 1''. But this would only have caused you some complaints from getty that /dev/ttyd0 through /dev/ttyd3 are not configured. Fix you hardware problem first. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)