On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > Hi, > I'm replying to my own message actually. This is just a quick note to let > you know that after having substituted the small s with a capital one in > console=ttyS0, serial output now works as expected. This is highly cool, I > can see it slowly drawing the ASCII graphics on the virtual terminal screen. > My screen reader, that is Supernova, even follows the Debian menu selection > in the installer automatically with speech, and no arrow key problems > either. Regarding Hyperterminal, I left bps to 9600 and got the best results > by leaving the terminal type to auto. okay, bit I'd advice you to try 38400 as well cause it's way faster then the 9600 and would make it easier to work.
> It seems I'll soon be able to install Debian on my own and can keep the > installation guide as well as a nice tutorial at hand. One final question, > though, how can I force Debian to continue using the serial port even after > installation? I'd need to be able to do that till I get brltty running or > something. well I suspect that the kernel you are using has serial-consoel enabeld. However, you may need to modify your /etc/inittab file after installation is complate to support a serial terminal. Another way out would be to also finish 2nd stage installation before rebooting. This means you will set a root-password and do package-selection before rebooting (which normally is done after rebooting). If you do so, you can install the ssh-deamon and thus have ssh-login support after reboot. WARNING: don't forget to create a normal-user account as well. It highly depends on if you install stable/testing/unstable if your ssh-version (use openssh) allowed root-logins. This si for security-reasons. > Gotta get some sleep as it's about 1 at the morning here. > Yet again thanks to everyone who contributed in this thread. You saved my > day. Glad to be of help. > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003
