The problem is that com1 (OpenBSD booter l) doesn't exist at all. Even if it's just a header with no cable attached it should come up since even a "bad" cable isn't terminated in anything? I mean it's just a wire going to nowhere.
I bought the cable as a net6501 accessory from Soekris. On Jun 30, 2017, at 9:38 PM, Hendrickson, Kenneth <[email protected]> wrote: >> OpenBSD can't seem to find my second RS232 port. >> Nor does it seem to work with FreeBSD. > > If the hardware is there, both OpenBSD and FreeBSD should find it and > announce it while booting, and in the dmesg. > >> Or do I have broken hardware? > > You might have a "bad" cable -- not bad as in defective, but bad as in > incorrect. It turns out there are two "standard" wiring pinouts from the > 10-pin board headers to the 9-pin DB-9 connector. Find out which one you > have. Then buy a cable for the other standard, and try it. > > Ken > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
