Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 May 2011 14:09:54 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > How ironic ... the power blinked and that machine rebooted, when it came > back up, I saw it boot via the serial console, but it would freeze > during the boot process w/ > > "Loading the saved-state of the serial devices..." > > I then

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:17:29 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: >> >> > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> >> OTOH, /etc/inittab can be restarted/reloaded by issu

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:17:29 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> OTOH, /etc/inittab can be restarted/reloaded by issuing "telinit q", or > >> at least that was what I used on another

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:17:29 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> OTOH, /etc/inittab can be restarted/reloaded by issuing "telinit q", or >> at least that was what I used on another distributions, in Debian I'm >> not sure if remains the same

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón wrote: 115200 is a bit high speed rate, for testing I would lower that value and > once it works, you can play with this. > Yeah, it is high, that was just my last change, I started at the typical 9600, went to 19200, 38400 and then 115200. All produces

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 May 2011 18:05:47 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > I've embarked on the trial and error process of setting up a serial > console on my Debian 6 machine. So far, the configuration has been > pretty straight forward. As a reference point I used the following two > websites (...) 115200 is

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:04 AM, David Parker wrote: Was your onboard serial port disabled in the BIOS at the time you installed > Debian? If it was, then the first port on your serial card should be mapped > to /dev/ttyS0. If not, then udev may have picked up the onboard port as > /dev/ttyS0

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-22 Thread David Parker
> In a nut-shell, this is what is how my Debian box is configured (for serial > console) > root@leviathan:~# setserial -g /dev/ttyS[0123]> /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xdc00, IRQ: 16> /dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xdc00, IRQ: 16> /dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4 > /dev/t