[Soekris] Net4521 Console Help

[william estrada]

Paul,

   The problem is that your OS is trying to run at a different serial port
speed that what you have the terminal program set to.

   You have three speeds to match, the speed of the Soekris BIOS, the
speed of the terminal program and the speed of the OS's serial console.
You have two of the three matched.  The common fix for this is to set
the console speed on the kernel boot parm.

   Go here: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

   This problem should not stop the boot process but it will 'hide' other
problem.  Are you running from a flash or hard drive?  You could try booting
m0n0wall or pebble just to test your system's hardware.  I use a flash
card with Grub installed.

   Good luck, let us know your progress.

-- 
William Estrada
MrUmunhum at popdial.com
Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ( 64.124.13.3 )

> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:49:33 -0500
> From: Paul Carroll <paulc at pobox.com>
> Subject: [Soekris] Net4521 Console Help
> To: soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
> Message-ID: <45CD24AD.1040802 at pobox.com>
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> I have a Net4521 that was purchased for my husbands birthday several
> years ago. It's not been in use for the past few years because his
> laptop died... or whatever. Anyway, my husbands now deceased and I'm
> trying to get the WAP working again because I'm purchasing a new laptop
> (which I don't have yet).
> 
> So, thats my story. The question is, how do I tell if the thing is
> working? I've got the console hooked up, and it seems to "boot" but then
> the console goes to jibberish after the OS loads (seen below). Shouldn't
> I be able to log into the OS or at least get some sort of prompt? The
> bios seems first rev as well... ver 1.15. What a mess, huh?
> 
> Also, the light on the internal PC card is blinking... I'm thinking
> that's not a good sign either. Help?
> 
> ***********
> 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
> Console: internal video/keyboard
> BIOS drive C: is disk0
> BIOS 639kB/64512kB available memory
> 
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
> (root at nb.neon1.net, Sat May 29 16:40:46 CEST 2004)
> /kernel text=0x189f60 data=0x1e908+0x1ae5c syms=[0x4+0x299c0+0x4+0x31044]
> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> Booting [kernel]...
> ????????????????????????????????????????????`???????????????????????????????????
> ???????????????????????????????????
> ***********
>