Serial Console woes

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik]

On Sun, 11 May 2003, Ryan Merrick wrote:

> I am trying to setup a serial console between two freebsd 4.8 boxes.
> The cable is known good and has been tested on a master power with
> #tip cuaa0b.

>  ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty Xwindow"    unknown on insecure

You are not seting any speed. Try something like

	ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  on insecure

or see the handbook for the above example. On the _OTHER_ machine
you sould have a line like

	cuaa0b:dv=/dev/cuaa0:br#9600:pa=none:

in your /etc/remote to match the 9600 baud rate.

Also Xwindow is a bit of a strange terminal for a serial console. You may
want to change that to 'dialup' or something more begin like vt52.

> When I try to connect I get a beep and connected message and a new
>  line but I don't see anything else.  I then ~^D out of tip with a [EOT] .

Make sure you try a few returns.

Dw