On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 02:33:33PM -0600, Peter Eisch wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to set up a Dell 1650 with serial console.  The bios is set to
> use com0,vt100,disabled (Disabled means to get out of the way once the
> bootloader is called).  All of that works fine, I see the system boot.
> 
> Once the system has booted, I never get a console login on com0.  Yes, I get
> all the kernel booting info including:
> 
> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
> com0: console
> com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
> intr_establish: pic pic0 pin 3: can't share type 3 with 2
> 
> which shows the bootloader is passing it off to the console correctly.  I do
> not have CONS_OVERRIDE set, nor a CONS device in the kernel.  The kernel is
> essentially GENERIC plus bigger NMBCLUSTERS, IPSEC, etc.
> With "wscons=YES" I atleast get a console login after it boots on the
> physical console.  With it "NO" I get no getty/login from com0 or console.

Do you have the boot options set to use the bios console, or com0?
What baud rate is the serial console set to?
Which version of netbsd?

At a guess the baud rate is being changed once user programs start running.

	David

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