help with conserver

[Ido Admon]

It was a peachy Monday, May 20 2013, 06:02:58 when shimi
<linux-il at shimi.net> wrote:

> 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


hi shimi, thanks. yes, i'm sorry if i wasn't clear enough. the console
is working flawlessly when physically connected. here's my conserver.cf
(192.168.43.168 is my laptop):

root at krzysztof:~# cat /etc/conserver/conserver.cf
# The character '&' in logfile names are substituted with the console
# name.
#
config * {
}

default * {
        logfile /var/log/conserver/&.log;
        timestamp "";
        rw *;
}

console serial {
        master localhost;
        type device;
	device /dev/ttyS0;
        baud 19200;
        parity none;
}

access * {
        trusted 192.168.43.168;
        trusted 127.0.0.1;
}



and the relevant line in inittab:

root at krzysztof:~# grep ttyS0 /etc/inittab 
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 19200 vt100

and what setserial says:

root at krzysztof:~# setserial /dev/ttyS0
/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4


thanks again!
ido