Yuriy Popov wrote:
> Hi Lonnie,
> Thanks for helpful link. But I am going to use USB
> port for memory stick. Serial port is very useful
> during development cycle, but once system in
> production it supposed to work fine, it will be away
> from computer desk and the only way to access it is
> through network. That leaves serial port wasted for
> nothing.
> I've been using linux for a while, but not consider
> myself an expert, so forgive me if my question is
> stupid. My understanding is: there should be some
> application or service that sends console output to
> serial port. Just tell me what is it. I'll experiment
> with it and then tell everybody about results.
> Thanks,
> Yury.
>
Yury,
I too will recommend that you bring out the headers for TTYS1 that are
on the board.
However, disabling the console should be possible:
1) Disable GRUB console - not quite sure how to do this. Surely you
will have to tweak the console lines in grub.conf or something.
Check this out:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06652.html
2) Disable kernel output. To do this, you will need to edit the kernel
command line in grub.conf and replace "console=/dev/ttyS0" with
"console=/dev/null".
3) Disable the login getty. Edit /etc/inittab and delete the line that
starts the getty on /dev/ttyS0. It should be pretty easy to find.
Now for the tricky parts...
I don't know how to disable the POST type stuff from the Soekris BIOS.
There might be an obvious option for it, but I don't know what it is.
Also, unless you patch the kernel you will always get the
"Decompressing image..." output. Maybe your weather station (or
whatever it was) won't have a problem with that, but it probably isn't
good...
--
Kristian Kielhofner
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