Fwd: [Soekris] running a program on the Serial port

[Chuck Yerkes]

Quoting Koffi (fokoffi at gmail.com):
> <henry at spsystems.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> > > > I have a Soekris board 4521, running debian (pebble) on it. Do you
> > > > guys have an idea on how to disable the serial console on the board? ...
> > >
> > > ...I might grab a PCMCIA USB card for it and use a USB serial port.
> > > Beats having no console at all.
> >
> > No USB on the 4521, if I'm not mistaken.  But if he's not using both the
> > PCMCIA slots, a PCMCIA serial port would be an option.  (B&B Electronics,
> > www.bb-elec.com, sells PCMCIA serial and parallel ports, or did last time
> > I looked.)

Well, I meant GIVE it USB using a PCMCIA card...  Then add 1+ serial
to that.

> debugging isn't an issue. I don't really want to spend an extra $100
> on a PCMCIA-to-serial adapter isn't appealing. We can still ssh over
> to it. So any other ideas?

Not really.  You need a serial port.  You think you have one with the
console but it will hurt when the thing is emitting errors.

We've done this ride, it's in the archives.
Someone hacked openbsd (see the archives for this list about serial
ports) so the boot code could redirect the console to /dev/null.

Perhaps linux offers something similar.


While you can ssh to it, and debugging isn't an issue, you get
no room for whining when it doesn't respond and you can't tell why.

I'm sorry the second serial port got buried under a PCMCIA slot.
I dunno if it's available somewhere else on the board (snagging
some pins from some chip somewhere...)

I'm happy COM2 is a header on the 4801.