[Soekris] net4801 loads slowly pxelinux.0

[Bill Maas]

Hello Fabio,

I tried minicom myself, but in the end I found cu(1) much easier to use
for a simple operation like monitoring a Soekris boot. Here's all I need
(copied verbatim from my OpenBSD PXE/DHCP/TFTP reference at
www.stsx.org):

"
# cu -l /dev/tty00 -s 19200

- substitute /dev/tty00 with /dev/tty01 or whatever applies, if necessary
- if you get the following message, the you are possibly trying to connect as
  an unprivileged user:

/var/spool/lock/LCK..tty00: No such file or directory
Can't open lock file.
all ports busy

[...]

[To capture the output:]

# cu -l /dev/tty00 -s 19200 | tee soekris.out

- this will make cu(1) write to a file named "soekris.out" (or whatever you want
  to call it) as well as to standard output. See tee(1).
"

>From the info you've supplied, I can't see why you would want to enable hardware
flow control, but it is supported by cu(1) as well. I also think I tried other
baud rates, but I recall (vaguely) that only 19200 worked well, even though an
alternative baud rate can be set in the Soekris BIOS.
I hope I haven't been telling you too much you already knew;)

Bill



On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 18:31 +0100, Fabio Vayr wrote:
> Thanks a lot.
> It was  a minicom issue which must be closed and restarted before 
> changes on hardware flow control can take effect.
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Fabio Vayr
> 
> 
> Ted Phelps wrote:
> 
> >Fabio Vayr writes:
> >  
> >
> >>Through the serial console I see the output of the bootloader changing
> >>very slowly every single char where you see "#" in the snapshot below:
> >>
> >>[snip]
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Probably this?
> >
> >  http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2006-January/009846.html
> > 
> >Cheers,
> >-Ted
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