On 3/9/06 3:01 PM, "David Laight" <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>

Good questions.

The bootblocks are set to com0/115200/8/N/1 and everything looks fine while
the logging its startup.

My /etc/ttys was still set to Pc instead of std.115200 and now I'm much
better.

Many Thanks!

peter