On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 01:23:50PM +0000, Eggert, Lars wrote: | Hi, | | On Jan 23, 2013, at 17:04, Dimitry Andric <d...@freebsd.org> wrote: | > CTS/RTS hardware flow control, maybe? E.g. add ":hw" to the default | > settings in /etc/gettytab, or make a specific entry with an added ":hw" | > setting. | | nope, I don't even get a login prompt if I do that. | | > If it is a physical serial console, you could also simply have a bad | > cable. Try swapping it with working system. :) | | Spent the last few hours fiddling with the cabling and the various BIOS | serial redirection options (it's a Dell 2950). My best guess is that | the serial port on the box is physically broken.
Try to do a {Ctrl}D to see if works. We've seen that the TX on reset hangs but input works fine. I'm not sure if we ran into this with uart(4) but had a problem with sio(4). Doug A. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"