Using Netra T1 105's as console servers.

[Marius Strobl]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 12:08:11AM -0700, Peter Losher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently came into possession of a stack of Netra T1 105's recently,
> with the intent of turning them into console servers running FreeBSD
> 6.1. (the HW is low power, stable, and in a 1U form factor which makes
> them perfect for this task)
> 
> I tried attaching some USB<->RS232 adapters into a USB PCI controller,
> FreeBSD saw the devices, and created the ucom links.  But when you
> connect to the devices, there is no activity (back and forth).  Tried
> using a RocketPort card, same thing, the various /dev/ttyR* devices were
> created, with the same effect.
> 
> Has anyone used a T1 as a serial console server, and encountered these
> problems?

FYI, in HEAD I've fixed rp(4) to work on sparc64. I can also have
a look at the USB drivers if you are still interested and tell me
which USB<->RS232 adapters you tried to use. On a quick glance at
least some of these drivers aren't endian-clean either.

Marius