[syslinux] isolinux serial console keyboard issue

[Floriola]

Hi gain,

> So I intend to replace in isolinux.cfg the line
< serial 0 9600
> with 
> serial 0 9600 0xab3

Now after adding this line 
> serial 0 9600 0xab3

the console is not working att all (no keyboard,
nothing displayed, with flow control enabled or
disabled in the terminal)

Any ideea whay I have done wrong?

I have a simple cisco serial cable, and I am using
win2000 with HyperTerminal.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Floriola



--- Floriola <floriola2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you all for your emails.
> 
> > Most likely your terminal program has flow control
> > turned on, and since 
> > you didn't configure flow control in your
> > configuration file, syslinux 
> > never enables it.
> 
> Yes, this was the problem. As son as I disable the
> flow control, the console keyboard start working.
> 
> I also found how to enable the isolinux flow control
> using the Remote-Serial-HOWTO. 
> 
>
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO.html#CONFIGURE-BOOT-LOADER-SYSLINUX
> 
> So I intend to replace in isolinux.cfg the line
> 
> serial 0 9600
> 
> with 
> 
> serial 0 9600 0xab3
> 
> Do you have any clue why in the syslinux docu there
> is
> no word about the "serial" flow control option?
> 
> Best regards,
> Floriola
> 


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