Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Simon Vallet
> I don't have the *exact* settings here at work, but I'll send them to > the list when I get home. However, here are the required > steps, as I see it: OK, I checked my config and will try to add some useful info : > 1. Get OF to put its console on the serial port : set 'input-device' > and'ou

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Marc
Op 24-sep-04 om 02:17 heeft Russell Hires het volgende geschreven: Hello all...I've got a Beige G3/266 w/ voodoo3 card, that doesn't give console output in 2.6.x kernels. So...I want to do a serial console to some other machine. I'm hoping there is some way to do this with BootX and either my p

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:57:51PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: } On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 09:17 AM, Gregory Seidman wrote: } >In fact, I can attest to using an ordinary Mac printer cable between my } >Oldworld Mac running Linux and my dual G4 with a Keyspan adapter and } >running MacOS X. I

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 09:17 AM, Gregory Seidman wrote: In fact, I can attest to using an ordinary Mac printer cable between my Oldworld Mac running Linux and my dual G4 with a Keyspan adapter and running MacOS X. I use minicom on the Mac and have set up quik, not BootX, to allow m

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:54:49AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > I've got two Macs connected with a null-modem cable. Mini-DIN-8 > null modem cables are hard to find. Try Belkin, they make cables > to order. I borrowed mine from a friend who is a Mac guru. If you > want to use an x86 box for t

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Simon Vallet
On 24 Sep 2004 15:32:29 +0200 Jens Schmalzing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you open several consoles, as in "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600", > kernel output goes to all of them, but output written to /dev/console > only goes to the last one. Hope that helps. That may be the hint : I do open

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Simon Vallet writes: > > 3. Get init to talk to the serial port : I didn't got this right -- > > I still don't have the output of rc scripts on my serial console (If > > you get this right I'll be happy to know). > > If you open several consoles, as in

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Simon Vallet writes: > 3. Get init to talk to the serial port : I didn't got this right -- > I still don't have the output of rc scripts on my serial console (If > you get this right I'll be happy to know). If you open several consoles, as in "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600", kernel output

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:03:14AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: } On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 02:08 AM, Brad Boyer wrote: } >I haven't tried it on ppc, but I use it on 68k macs sometimes. I usually } >use ZTerm on another mac and a standard mac printer cable for the } >connection. } } Don't you

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Simon Vallet
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:39:24 -0400 Russell Hires <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Q: How many support techs does it take to change a lightbulb? > A: Well, it works fine on this end... LOL :-) OK, wasn't so useful, I admit ;-) > Can you send the list some kind of quick, "here's exactly what all o

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Russell Hires
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 08:46, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Russell Hires writes: > > > > > As long as you are using a kernel compiled with support for running > > > > the console on a mac style serial port, it should be simple. > [...] > > What about a 2.4.27 kernel? I don't have those options

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Russell Hires writes: > > > As long as you are using a kernel compiled with support for running > > > the console on a mac style serial port, it should be simple. [...] > What about a 2.4.27 kernel? I don't have those options in my .config... Ah, sorry. The original post asked for a 2.6 ker

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Russell Hires
> Works fine between a 6400 and a beige G3 here, both running Debian -- i > use minicom to access the serial port. Q: How many support techs does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Well, it works fine on this end... LOL :-) Seriously, > Of's default settings are 38400 bauds / 8 bit data / no st

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:29:33AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 02:21, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > Brad Boyer writes: > > > > > As long as you are using a kernel compiled with support for running > > > the console on a mac style serial port, it should be simple. > > > > Such

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Russell Hires
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 02:21, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Brad Boyer writes: > > > As long as you are using a kernel compiled with support for running > > the console on a mac style serial port, it should be simple. > > Such as, the pre-packaged Debian kernels. If you build the kernel > you

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi, On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 02:54:49 -0400 Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 08:17 PM, Russell Hires wrote: > > > Has anyone done this? And if so, how? I'm running sarge, BTW... Works fine between a 6400 and a beige G3 here, both running Debian -- i use

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread david
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Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 08:17 PM, Russell Hires wrote: Hello all...I've got a Beige G3/266 w/ voodoo3 card, that doesn't give console output in 2.6.x kernels. So...I want to do a serial console to some other machine. I'm hoping there is some way to do this with BootX and either my p

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 02:08 AM, Brad Boyer wrote: I haven't tried it on ppc, but I use it on 68k macs sometimes. I usually use ZTerm on another mac and a standard mac printer cable for the connection. Don't you need a null-modem cable? Or is there something I don't know about

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Brad Boyer writes: > As long as you are using a kernel compiled with support for running > the console on a mac style serial port, it should be simple. Such as, the pre-packaged Debian kernels. If you build the kernel yourself, the necessary options are CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y CONFIG_SERIAL

Re: Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-24 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:17:42PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Hello all...I've got a Beige G3/266 w/ voodoo3 card, that doesn't give > console output in 2.6.x kernels. So...I want to do a serial console to > some other machine. I'm hoping there is some way to do this with BootX > and either my p

Oldworld Serial Console

2004-09-23 Thread Russell Hires
Hello all...I've got a Beige G3/266 w/ voodoo3 card, that doesn't give console output in 2.6.x kernels. So...I want to do a serial console to some other machine. I'm hoping there is some way to do this with BootX and either my printer port and printer cable to another mac running linux, or using so