Hi, > > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:58 -0800, TechKid PC wrote: > >> I finally have the necessary cables and am able to access the comBIOS via > >> a > >> USB->Serial->Null-Mode->Female-Gender-Changer adapter chain.
[...] Some experimenting raises second thoughts on the "messed up comBIOS" issue. > [Bill wrote back:] > To answer your question properly: no, there doesn't seem to be a way to > reset the comBIOS to factory defaults on a Soekris box. It wouldn't help > much in the case of a "wrong" baud rate setting either, because the baud > rate would still be a valid one (or else it would be rejected on the > first place, I assume) Confirmed for baud rates like 300 and 1200. Not for 115200 however. In fact the net5501 supports that speed: set ConSpeed=115200 show ConSpeed = 115200 Result: r...@hibernia:~# cu -l /dev/ttyUSB0 -s 115200 Connected. POST: 012345689bcefghips1234ajklnopqr,,,tvwxy Providing support for an undocumented serial transfer rate (or not documenting a supported rate - I looked into both the manual and the changelog, but I couldn't find it mentioned anywhere) is surely an effective way to confuse users. > and the problem could therefore be delegated to > the terminal configuration. I don't see how one could mess up the > comBIOS settings in such a way that it would no longer be accessible. Except if the box can go into a supported "invalid" baud rate. Hard to imagine how this could happen involuntarily, possibly through thoughtless automatism. Maybe a fine excuse to finally update/create the net5501 doc. By the way, assuming that the UART supports 8 speeds (probably), if 6 speeds are this one is also supported, which is the 8th one? I hope I'm not missing something fundamental here.. Bill _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
