I'm assuming you're using minicom? Have you tried setting the "Hardware Flow Control" to "no" and "Software Flow Control" to "yes" in the minicom config? This has helped me with a number of switches, you might be having the same problem.
HTH, Josh. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Miller Sent: 23 January 2012 16:00 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense] Soekris 6501 installation question On 1/20/12 8:19 PM, mdh wrote: > David Miller wrote: >> I just took delivery on a shiny new Soekris 6501. I'm trying to >> install pfsense on it. I've installed from CD on several servers, >> but this is my first time with a diskless machine. >> >> I have a serial port converter on a macbook pro, and can bring up the >> soekris to a monitor prompt. >> >> I have a 16 GB USB drive mounted inside the case. I'd like to install >> pfsense on this drive. >> >> I copied pfSense-memstick-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.img to the drive with dd >> if=pfSense-memstick-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.img of=/dev/disk4 bs=16k as it >> suggested in http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/HOWTO_Install_pfSense. >> >> The system starts up OK, I hit return to boot, and it APPEARS to go >> through a boot process. The screen display is confused, with the >> 'spinning' cursor wandering all over my terminal emulator. Worse, >> letters go across the screen but are immediately blanked out. What >> term emulator do I need to be? I've tried xterm and xterm-color. > Probably vt100 or somesuch, for serial. xterm supports a lot of > things that most serial consoles do not. No dice:( None of vt102/rsvt/ansi/xterm/xterm-color work. If I interrupt the boot process at the right point I get the freebsd boot prompt, so I think I've got the memstick loaded right. Has anyone got pfsense loaded on a soekris 6501 ? Any other ideas? Thanks, --- David _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
