> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:soekris-tech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jed Clear > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:59 PM > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Soekris] problems with net6501-70 > > On Mar 20, 2012, at 4:24 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2012-03-20, Ulf Zimmermann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Trying pfsense and FreeBSD9.0 via pxeboot, I get at some point to see > >> the swirly on my serial terminal but nothing else, it is as if all other > >> text is white on white or black on black. Has anyone seen something > >> similar? I am not very picky about what I put on these, as soon I get > >> ... a NTP daemon, as I want to use these as our NTP masters for the > >> internal network. > > > > This sounds like the boot loader hasn't been told to put the console > > on the serial port, so you don't get output after the kernel has > > started running. > > > > I don't know how to set this for pfsense/FreeBSD, there should be > > something in documentation for the boot loader. On OpenBSD you > > either type 'set tty com0' into the boot loader, or place that line > > in /etc/boot.conf on the tftp server that you pxeboot from.
The pfSense image was the one build with serial console support. > Another common problem is that most OSes assume a serial console speed > of 9,600 and Seokris devices default to 19,200. So assuming you start your > terminal [emulation] at 19,200, as soon as the OS picks up from the BIOS, you > loose the output or it becomes garbled. With FreeBSD there are three stages > that all have to be changed if you want to stay at 19,200, so I find it > easier to > change the BIOS and terminal to 9,600 and not fight it. I did set console to 9600, I can see some messages but at some point (like when the menu of FreeBSD comes up) everything seems to switch that I can see something is getting printed, but the only thing identifiable is the swirly as the kernel pieces are getting loaded. I am downloading the full FreeBSD setup right now and will setup a full build environment (I don't have anything recent for FreeBSD setup right now). I might also check the RedHat EL6 Update 2 kernel and see which driver it has for the e1000e. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
