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Date:  Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:53:28 -0500
From:  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Ing=2E_Ernesto_P=E9rez_Est=E9vez=22?= <info (at mark) ecualinux.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:04102] Re: accessing bq via serial cable
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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oh yes you can.

in your GRUB you should tell your kernel to also listen via the serial
cable and in your inittab you should allow login via serial.

I think it is not related to bq but 100% an OS tweak. Here is an example:
vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

.
.
title=Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-37.0.1.ELsmp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.4.21-37.0.1.ELsmp root=/dev/hda3 console=tty0
console=ttyS0,9600n8
initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.21-37.0.1.ELsmp.img
.
.
Take not of the console=ttyS0,9600n8, this will allow to see how the
kernel starts.

And in your /etc/inittab, at the very end:
s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0 vt100

this will spawn agetty to permit login vùÂ ttyS0

thats it.

I have it configured in a RHEL3, but it should work for centos3 and centos4.

regards
epe

Kelly Meeks wrote:
> I had to access my 4i last night via serial cable due to a firewall issue,
> and it got me wondering if you can do the same thing with a nuonce centos/bq
> install?
>  
> If so, is everything turned on to do that out of the box or are there
> settings that must be applied?
>  
> I didn't have to do this, but I know that via the cobalt you can turn that
> on/off via the lcd controller, and I didn't know if that made it somehow
> proprietary to cobalt or not.
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Kelly
> 


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