[Soekris] Problem with accessing console in net4826

[Nithin Kumar Dara]

Martin Johnson wrote:
>
> On 8 Sep 2007, at 04:25, Nithin Kumar Dara wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> Iam new to Soekris. I want to install voyage into net4826. I am trying
>> PXE boot. I power it using POE. When i connect the box to my PC running
>> ubuntu feisty fawn using a null modem. My PC has only one serial port
>>
>> when i run setserial -g /dev/ttyS*  the output is as following.
>>
>> /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
>> /dev/ttyS1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
>> /dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
>> /dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
>>
>> So i have configured minicom to connect to /dev/ttyS0 and baudrate
>> 19200. But there is nothing  i could notice on minicom.
>>
>> Could some throw light on this...where i could be doing mistake???
>
> Are you sure you have a Null Modem cable?  If it is a null modem 
> cable, then the transmit and receive data pins will be swapped over, 
> so pin 2 goes to pin 3 and pin 3 goes to pin 2.  
> http://www.beyondlogic.org/serial/serial.htm

Thanks for the link. I have used different null modem and it starts 
showing on minicom. Might be the first one is a wrong one.
>
> You may also want to switch off handshaking in Minicom
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