Sooooo, what's borked with your VMware OSes?
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Jesse Rink <[email protected]>wrote: > Finally some luck. > > I was able to successfully connect to an HP switch over the console port > with a serial cable by doing the following: > > * Boot from the Ubuntu 13.10 Live CD > * Choose the option for TRY it NOW (as opposed to installing the OS) > * Open the Ubuntu Software Center, click Edit and choose Software Sources, > then enable Community Maintained free and Open Source software (universe) > and disable the option of the CDRom/DVD being a Source > * From terminal, "sudo apt-get update" > * From terminal, "sudo apt-get install putty" > * From terminal, "sudo putty" (without sudo, putty won't allow Serial > connections on ttyS0) > > That seemed to do the trick! > JR > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on > behalf of Jesse Rink [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 3:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] bootable cd/usb os to check serial port > > Okay, I'm not having any luck with this at all. > > I tried a Ubuntu Live CD 13.10 but that doesn't have Putty or Minicom > installed by default, and trying to install it from a terminal using "sudo > apt-get install putty" results in an error saying E:\ unable to locate > package putty. I'm guessing because the Ubuntu Live CD 13.10 is trying to > install the package from the E:\ (cd) drive instead of the internet. (I > also tried sudo apt-get update, but that didn't help either) > > So, I tried a Fedora 19 Live CD. I was able to install putty on it using > "sudo yum install putty" and I now have putty available, but whenever I > start up putty and select Serial, it automatically tries to use the > /dev/ttyS0 port at 9600, but errors with a "Unable to open connection to: > unable to open serial port" ... I'm guessing because the serial port isn't > actually active or turned-on in the OS yet since it's merely a Live CD? I > also notice that when in the /dev directory there is no ttyS0 or ttyS1 in > it... So.. > > I'm stuck. Any know how to enable the serial port in the Fedora 19 Live > CD? My linux knowledge is about NIL. > > JR > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on > behalf of Ben Scott [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 9:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] bootable cd/usb os to check serial port > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Ken Cornetet <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Careful using cu (if it even exists on modern linux distros). > > It's generally still packaged by "full" distributions, but live CDs > have to be more choosey about what they provide "out of the box", and > I expect the "uucp" label looks unappealing. :) > > > IIRC, cu doesn't do any handling of the modem and flow control lines, so > you > > are at the mercy of whatever the defaults are for whichever serial port > device > > file you are using. > > That's what stty(1) is for. :) E.g., this sets 9600 baud, 8 data > bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, RTS/CTS off, XON/OFF off (and yes I had > to look the options up): > > stty /dev/ttyS0 9600 cs8 -parenb -cstopb -crtscts -cdtrdsr -ixon > > -- Ben > > > > > > >
