Serial connection with putty - putty stays black

[toml]

Hello,

I recently purchased a FWA-3020 from OSnet.eu http://www.osnet.eu/en/content/firewall-fwa-3020
I am trying to connect to the console with putty, but when I start the device I see my cursor move over the screen, but there is no text displayed.
If the cursor stops moving, it jumps back to the top, but I cannot enter any commands. After typing some enters, ctrl-c,… It starts making this "click" noise
which means the keyboard buffer is full, I guess.

I checked my com parameters and they are the standard 9600/8/N/1, also tested with another device and there everything went fine.

Does somebody know what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

[GruensFroeschli]

Are you using a null-modem cable or a straight serial cable?
Problems like these are usually is a mix-up between these two.

[toml]

I honestly don't now, the one that was delivered with the device.
I suppose it is the correct one (null-modem?)  because I just tried with a freedos embedded image and that was working fine :s

[GruensFroeschli]

Ok then you have the right cable :)

Which version did you install?
For use with a the serial interface you should flash the nanoBSD version.
–> the file: pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-1g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz or similar (512mb, 1g, 2g, 4g)

[toml]

I used the pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-4g-amd64-nanobsd.img.gz image.
I also just received an email from osnet.eu saying that there is a hidden vga-port and the output is going by default to the hidden VGA port, not the console.
I thought I read that with the nanobsd images it was going to the console by default,no?
They are telling me I should mount it on a freebsd machine and use boot0cfg? Can I alter the output with that?

edit: Apparently you can, just read man boot0cfg

[toml]

My CF card shows up as:

da5
da5s1
da5s1a
da5s2
da5s2a
da5s3

So I suppose
boot0cfg -b boot0sio da5

should do the trick? But it doesn't :(

[toml]

Apparently a "normal"```
boot0cfg -B /dev/da5

Thanks for all the help

[GruensFroeschli]

Glad you could resolve it.