On 1/23/12 11:06 AM, Hiren Joshi wrote:
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.
No, I was using 'screen' as it's built-in. 'screen /dev/tty.usbserial
19200,cs8
I also fired up an ancient PC laptop and tried hyperterm (had to use the
same USB dongle; it doesn't have a physical serial port either). I got
the exact same issue with flow control set to 'none', 'xon/xoff', and
'hardware'.
I don't think it's flow control related, nor terminal emulator. I'm
thinking it's soekris serial-console related, or something weird like
the memstick image being set to some hardwired defaults that are very
different from the soekris console setup.
Ideas welcome,
--- David
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
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