[Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

[Rainer Ruecker]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:00:32PM -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
> 
> On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Andy Michaels wrote:
> 
> > hmmm, for my soekrii (is that the plural?) I've never had to do too
> > much to get everything (well, everything I use anyway) working to my
> > satisfaction.  I generally set the baud rate via an option like so:
> >
> > $ screen /dev/tty.usbserial0 9600
> 
> 
> 	Thanks for this conformation, will come in very handy! (/me is  
> anxious to get his hardware and start working on it!)
> 
> >
> > I've never had to explicitly set the stop-bits or parity, it just
> > seemed to work.  Of course, YMMV.  I should probably disclose that I
> > mostly use the console for emergencies and system configuration.  I do
> > most of the work via SSH, once the system is initially configured.
> 
> 
> 	ssh once you have an OS loaded and booted and connecting over the  
> ethernet port? Or some other magical setup?

Unless there is an OS with a working network configuration and a ssh
daemon running on it you probably want to use the shell by the means of
the serial console. The magical bits in the BIOS do not include a full
blown TCP-Stack or ssh-server  - yet. (And no, I haven't heard of any
project having this on the agenda ...) 

Cheers,
Rainer

> 	Regards,...
> 
> 
> -jmpp
> 
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