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    • belleraB
      bellera
      last edited by

      Hello!

      I've got the following message at serial console:

      Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device).
      Thus no job control in this shell.

      And if I make a top command or ping command at shell it is impossible to stop it.

      I'm using PuTTY (Windows version) with a null-modem cable.

      Is there any special configuration for serial connection? It is my first time I use it.

      1.2.3-RC2
      built on Thu Jun 18 04:53:17 EDT 2009

      Regards,

      Josep Pujadas

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      • belleraB
        bellera
        last edited by

        Hello!

        The problem doesn't happen for hard disk intallation. It seems is related to Embedded version.

        Serial console works perfectlly for hardisk installation.

        Version 1.2.3-RC2
        built on Wed Jun 24 10:37:51 EDT 2009 
        Platform pfSense

        In fact, better than VGA and keyboard! Spanish keyboards (and other international keyboards) have different layout. With serial console it is the client (in my case PuTTY) who controls the layout. Size of characters are also smaller, so the serial console looks like a SSH connection. Wonderful!

        Regards,

        Josep Pujadas

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          I have also seen those errors on 1.2.x embedded installs, I'm not sure there is a way around them there.

          That said, they do not happen on 2.0 installs so apparently they have been corrected in the next major version.

          I'm not sure if there an easy fix for that, but you can always open a bug report at http://redmine.pfsense.org/

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          • dotdashD
            dotdash
            last edited by

            It doesn't appear to respond to the break sequence. Top can be exited with q, but if you use ping without -c, there doesn't seem to be away to stop it.

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