Re: JP7 (com1) on net6501

The problem is that com1 (OpenBSD booter l) doesn't exist at all. Even if it's just a header  with no cable attached it should come up since even a "bad" cable isn't terminated in anything? I mean it's just a wire going to nowhere. 

I bought the cable as a net6501 accessory from Soekris. 

On Jun 30, 2017, at 9:38 PM, Hendrickson, Kenneth <[email protected]> wrote:

>> OpenBSD can't seem to find my second RS232 port.
>> Nor does it seem to work with FreeBSD.
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> If the hardware is there, both OpenBSD and FreeBSD should find it and announce it while booting, and in the dmesg.
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>> Or do I have broken hardware?
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> You might have a "bad" cable -- not bad as in defective, but bad as in incorrect.  It turns out there are two "standard" wiring pinouts from the 10-pin board headers to the 9-pin DB-9 connector.  Find out which one you have.  Then buy a cable for the other standard, and try it.
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> Ken
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