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Subject: [ILUG] Re: serial console question
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:15:27 +0100 
"John P. Looney" <valen@tuatha.org>  wrote:

|  I've found a decrepit raq3 that I'm going to resurrect, as soon as I work
| out what's up with the console.

|  I'm using 115200 8n1 with minicom, and I'm getting wierd stuff like:

| S+#_+Å± INET __+_: 
| S+#_+Å± Å°_°_ MÄ+Å+Å± _+Ä+ °+_<_++_.
| S+#_+Å± #+__+ S+#_+Å± #+Å + __+_: 
| IÅ+#+ _+°#+_ °Ä_ +#Å _+ -- NÄ+ _+#_+Å± SSL

|  So it looks like some sort of setting mismatch. Various places on the web
| say that cobalts are setup with 115200 8n1 serial ports, but someone could
| have changed it on this particular box.

|  Anyone care to guess what's up ?

One possible is that it's toggling the VTx00 alt character set. If 
that's the case, feeding ^O to the tty somehow (i.e. cat to the device) 
should flip it back.
	Paul


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