help with conserver

[shimi]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Ido Admon <idoadm at gmail.com> wrote:

> dear linux-il folks,
> i thought i might try here before the conserver mailing list. i have a
> nice little setup of a soekris net4801
> (http://soekris.com/products/net4801.html) that serves (with a
> minimal debian and mpd) as a music box. the only way to communicate with
> it other than networking (wlan or ethernet) is the serial console.
> now,occasionally, i want to access the console without hooking up the
> serial cable, because i'm lazy. i found conserver
> (http://www.conserver.com), which is supposed to do just that - allow
> remote access to the actual console device. the problem is it doesn't
> work for me for whatever reason. i'm able to connect to the server,
> attach to the console, but then it freezes and i can do nothing except
> use the escape sequence to quit.
> if i'm already connected at the same time to the console with the
> cable (of course it can't really work together, this is just for
> testing), i can actually see characters being sent to the console, but
> with no apparent response, as if it's just displayed instead of being
> taken as commands.
>
>

But is the console actually 'listening' ?

I mean, do you have [a]getty running and everything? (see
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-setup-serial-console-on-debian-linux/)

I would assume that it is, because from your wording, I understand that
sometimes you do use the physical serial connection with success... but I
have to ask.

The next question would of course be if conserver console was set to type
'device' and the device path was set to the device file name of a serial
console listening with the aforementioned getty ? And the buadrate,
start/stop bit, parity, all match to what has been set on getty?

-- Shimi
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