more serial port troubles

2011-06-24 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, Background: I'm trying to debug a Xen setup and the hypervisor outputs its info via the com port. This seems like it should be a cakewalk but I've been fighting this for almost a week now. All I'm trying to do is dump output from one com port on one machine to the com port on a diffe

Re: more serial port troubles

2011-06-24 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/24/2011 03:10 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > Background: I'm trying to debug a Xen setup and the hypervisor outputs > its info via the com port. > > This seems like it should be a cakewalk but I've been fighting this for > almost a week now. > > All I'm trying to do is dump output

Re: more serial port troubles

2011-06-24 Thread Mike Wright
On 06/24/2011 03:56 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 06/24/2011 03:10 PM, Mike Wright wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Background: I'm trying to debug a Xen setup and the hypervisor outputs >> its info via the com port. >> >> This seems like it should be a cakewalk but I've been fighting this for >> almost a w

Re: more serial port troubles

2011-06-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mike Wright writes: Yesterday I installed putty and selecting "serial" gets me nowhere, so for spits and giggles I chose "ssh" and entered the hostname of the target machine. It asked for my login name, presented my key and, voilá, I'm logged into the remote machine. That step alone verifies t

Re: more serial port troubles

2011-06-24 Thread Mike Wright
On 06/24/2011 05:13 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Mike Wright writes: > >> Yesterday I installed putty and selecting "serial" gets me nowhere, so >> for spits and giggles I chose "ssh" and entered the hostname of the >> target machine. It asked for my login name, presented my key and, >> voilá, I'm

Re: more serial port troubles

2011-06-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mike Wright writes: Sunday I'll go buy two connectors and wire my own 3-wire null modem cable: ground, tx, rx. With that, you have to turn hardware flow control off. I would also recomment crossing DTR with DSR and CTS, to get hardware flow control. I'm tending to

Re: more serial port troubles

2011-06-24 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Mike Wright writes: > >> Sunday I'll go buy two connectors and wire my own 3-wire null modem >> cable: ground, tx, rx. > > With that, you have to turn hardware flow control off. > > I would also recomment crossing DTR with DSR and CTS, to g