| 00:02.34 | chrisa | To use a serial console just enable it in /etc/inittab (look for ttyS0) and then use minicom or screen on the x86 box |
| 00:03.09 | Rn | how to check if the serial port /cable is valid? |
| 00:03.12 | Rn | i don't know if either |
| 00:03.32 | Rn | i'm plugging it into the ADB style port that you would normally plug a modem into |
| 00:03.36 | Rn | it is not the one for the printer |
| 00:03.39 | chrisa | oh, ADB.... scary |
| 00:03.42 | Rn | but it is next to the one for the printer |
| 00:03.44 | chrisa | I don't touch that |
| 00:03.52 | Rn | oh |
| 00:04.27 | Rn | it is serial, but in the mac serial cable type |
| 00:04.28 | Rn | you know |
| 00:06.48 | Piru | serial debugging rules, we use it in our os development |
| 00:08.40 | Rn | :) |
| 00:08.44 | Rn | that's what i want to get to |
| 00:09.05 | Rn | i think my nubus pmac (6116cd) is a good place to learn |
| 00:09.29 | Piru | basically I've got a linux boxen /dev/ttyS1 set up with 'stty' in my boot scripts (well I bet there's a better way for that) |
| 00:10.04 | Piru | stty -F /dev/ttyS1 speed 115200 igncr |
| 00:10.05 | Rn | i saw in 2.6.9-rc1 that there is support now for USB serial console adapter |
| 00:10.22 | Rn | igncr? |
| 00:10.33 | Rn | is that for the \n differences? |
| 00:10.36 | Piru | ignores carriage return chars |
| 00:10.38 | Piru | \r |
| 00:10.41 | Rn | ah |
| 00:10.47 | Piru | already in input phase |
| 00:11.02 | Piru | so any unholy m$ \r\n are converted to plain \n |
| 00:11.05 | Rn | is minicom the easiest? |
| 00:11.06 | Rn | or is there another |
| 00:11.24 | Rn | MS \r\l is stupid |
| 00:11.34 | Rn | or is it \l\r |
| 00:11.41 | Piru | I'm oldshool and use tee ~/log.txt </dev/ttyS1 :) |
| 00:11.47 | Rn | haha |
| 00:12.04 | Rn | can i do cat </dev/ttyS1 |
| 00:12.20 | Piru | well sure |
| 00:12.31 | Rn | um |
| 00:12.32 | Piru | tee just gives me a file to look into, too |
| 00:12.35 | Rn | minicom doesn't do anything |
| 00:12.38 | Rn | what do i need to do? |
| 00:14.13 | Rn | like when i do 'minicom /dev/ttyS0' it does initializing modem, then ... i don't see anything that says it's connected to anything |
| 00:14.16 | Rn | i don't understand |
| 00:16.23 | Rn | what is the wiring of mac serial? |
| 00:18.03 | Rn | ooh i found it |
| 00:20.03 | Rn | http://francis.courtois.free.fr/jc1/serial/main.html |
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| 00:25.07 | Rn | what sort of cable would i buy if i wanted to get the right one |
| 00:26.22 | iceman | wow, I finally got openfirmware to use my pci gfx card, and work with the non-apple monitor. netbsd has some really nice tools for mac |
| 00:29.01 | Rn | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~zben/mac/MacSerHard.html |
| 00:29.06 | Rn | icedtrip_, nifty |
| 00:40.25 | Rn | hmm |
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