On 8/3/06, Jonathan Wanak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,I'm trying to get the serial console to work. I'm running pfSense RC2, on the hard drive on a PII Dell Optiplex, connected to my Windows XP machine with a null modem cable. Connection settings are 9600/8/N/1/HW handshaking. I have verified 2-way communication between the firewall box and the XP machine ('echo "xx" > ttyxx' appears in HT; 'more ttyxx' displays text typed into HT), and disconnected the keyboard, mouse, and monitor from the router. Here's my problem: I see the pfSense boot-up and shut-down messages in HyperTerminal. However, once I get to the line "Bootup complete" I can't seem to do anything. I was expecting to see the main console screen at this point, but nothing further appears. When I reboot via the web configurator, I see the shutdown messages in HyperTerminal. I've tried TTY, VT100, ANSI, and auto emulation modes. I've also tried playing around with the flow control settings, but haven't seen any difference. I'm guessing I have some kind of terminal misconfiguration, but don't know where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Interesting, didn't know the PC image would display anything on serial during boot. In the System->Advanced menu, there's an option to spawn the console on serial. --Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
