Re: redirecting printk to the Serial port

Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Sun, 02 Mar 2003 23:51:26 -0800


Make sure there's no serial stuff, etc in your init scripts that
changes speeds or anything. Other than that, not sure ... been
so long since I set it up, I forget ...

M.

--On Monday, March 03, 2003 13:09:29 +0530 Prasad <prasad_s@students.iiit.net> wrote:

>
> the output stopped after it printed the line "Freeing unused kernel
> memory". How do we manage to get the printk's to the serial line after
> this. I can see the messages using 'dmesg' but am not getting them over
> the serial line.
>
> Prasad.
>
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> --On Monday, March 03, 2003 12:58:24 +0530 Prasad <prasad_s@students.iiit.net> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > I have seen the Documentation/serial-console.txt and accordingly gave the
>> > kernel arguments console=/dev/ttyS0,9600n8, but even after giving that i
>> > am not getting anything to the other end. To check if the serial
>> > communication was in place... i tried echo "abc" > /dev/ttyS0 and that
>> > worked.
>>
>> I use "console=ttyS0,57600n8" - no "/dev".
>>
>> M.
>>
>
> --
> Failure is not an option
>
>

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