On Sun, 22 May 2011 18:05:47 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > I've embarked on the trial and error process of setting up a serial > console on my Debian 6 machine. So far, the configuration has been > pretty straight forward. As a reference point I used the following two > websites
(...) 115200 is a bit high speed rate, for testing I would lower that value and once it works, you can play with this. > In windows, I've got a 2-port serial card, it is properly recognized as > COM3 and COM4. When I try to open a connection to the Debian box via > COM3/COM4, all I get is a black screen and I can't tell if I am actually > connected to the serial console or not .... I am curious if I missed > something here ... I tend to experiment a lot and serial access would > just make things so much easier when I am forced to reboot this box and > it doesn't come back up ... a lot easier then lugging a 60lb CRT onto my > desk to plug into that computer .... I suppose you already rebooted the computer you wanted to connect to, right? OTOH, /etc/inittab can be restarted/reloaded by issuing "telinit q", or at least that was what I used on another distributions, in Debian I'm not sure if remains the same (reviewing the manual...) hum, yep, it's the same :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.23.16.07...@gmail.com