On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 10:34:50AM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 10:34:50 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
>To: Dancho Penev <dpenev@mail.bg>
>Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
>Subject: Re: serial console login
>
>On Sun, 11 May 2003, Dancho Penev wrote:
>
>> I have a strange problem with NetBSD-1.5.2 and serial console logins:
>> If I use GENERIC kernel that came with distribution I can login on serial
>> console without any problems, but if I use any custom compiled kernel,
>> even GENERIC on serial console are printed only kernel messages and nothing
>> else.
>> Any ideas what I missing?
>
>It's not clear to me why the GENERIC kernel you compile should be any
>different than the GENERIC kernel that came with the distribution. Are
>you sure you have the 1.5.2 sources?
>
>Can you get a shell in single-user mode? If yes, it's only the getty,
>not the kernel as such. Try editing "/etc/ttys" to turn the console
>off, and the correct serial port on. The magic "console" device is
>nice in that it just works for new installs no matter what type of
>console you have, but there's more to go wrong, so it makes sense to
>get it out of the picture.

Hi Frederick,

Thanks for response. I found what cause this unusual behaviour,
that was a patch which include support for isapnp modem. I'm 99%
sure that this is getty problem but I won't go further because I
finally decide to upgrade to 1.6.

>
>Frederick

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Regards,
Dancho Penev