Serial Communication: Terminals

[James]

On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 11:32 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <200803231122.57251.aj at siegel-tech.net>
>             Aaron Siegel <aj at siegel-tech.net> writes:
> : The question is; if the login prompt is to appear where would it appear? Would 
> : it be one of the virtual terminals? Do I need to use cu, tip, or minicom?  
> : When I use cu program 
> : 	# cu -l cuad1
> : I receive a message
> : 	Connected
> : But I do not receive a prompt.  
> 
> Do you have all the pins of the serial port wired up, or just TX, RX
> and GND?  If the latter, you should use 3wire.19200 as the entry in
> /etc/ttys.
> 
> Warner

Warner,

if you check his original post again you'll see he has a typo
in /boot/loader.conf that is the most likely suspect.


James