Re: Serial console not working for IBM Aptiva

2007-03-26 Thread vladas
On 3/13/07, Damon McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the archives, the Aptiva BIOS had incorrect IRQ/address values for Serial Port 1 and Serial Port 2. A BIOS flash to the latest available version (perhaps unnecessary) and then setting these to match the values specified in pccom(4) resolved

Re: Serial console not working for IBM Aptiva

2007-03-13 Thread Damon McMahon
On 19/02/2007, at 10:46 PM, Nick Holland wrote: Damon McMahon wrote: Thanks for the response, Nick, I'm almost there and just one further query: On 18/02/07, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The Aptiva has an anaemic BIOS program, but by disabling one of the two serial interfaces

Re: Serial console not working for IBM Aptiva

2007-02-19 Thread Nick Holland
Damon McMahon wrote: Thanks for the response, Nick, I'm almost there and just one further query: On 18/02/07, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The Aptiva has an anaemic BIOS program, but by disabling one of the two serial interfaces I now appear to have eliminated IRQ conflicts and

Re: Serial console not working for IBM Aptiva

2007-02-18 Thread Damon McMahon
Thanks for the response, Nick, I'm almost there and just one further query: On 18/02/07, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Been there, seen that, kicked self in butt once I realized the port I was trying to use as a serial terminal was also configured as a serial console for the

Serial console not working for IBM Aptiva

2007-02-17 Thread Damon McMahon
Greetings, I've installed OBSD 3.9 on an old (circa 2000) IBM Aptiva successfully, but I'm having trouble configuring a serial console for it. Firstly, selecting a serial console at installation produced an incorrect boot.conf as follows: # cat /etc/boot.conf stty com 9600 set tty com