On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:23:23 -0800, "Chess ForFun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please do not use HTML on this list, plain text is much better. >I have installed latest kdb patches for 2.4.19 kernel and kdb seems to >be working fine on both machines. But when I try to debug from a serial >console, I can't get into the debugger. I tried hitting CTRL-A, send a >break key using kermit and minicom, nothing seems to work. >COM1 port of debug machine is connected to another linux machine's >COM1 port. If I do "ls > /dev/ttyS0" then output comes there. I can >also get lilo output on serial console. This confirms that serial >console is working fine. >Does this combination work for anyone? >Any tips? You have to have a user space program reading from the serial port. Otherwise the linux serial code does not look at any characters coming down the line, this is a restriction of the linux serial layer. My /etc/inittab contains co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L ttyS0 38400 vt100
