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Operating Systems AIX Power5 9133-55A Serial Console connection issue Post 302966559 by Devyn on Saturday 13th of February 2016 12:54:22 PM

02-13-2016

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Power5 9133-55A Serial Console connection issue

Hey All,

Trying to connect to the Power5 9133-55A serial console using a serial-to-usb converter (RS232). The other end is connected via null modem. Tried minicom, putty and other Linux utilities, no luck. The serial device shows up as /dev/ttyUSB0.

Tried 9600 8N1 XON/XOFF, no luck. There is simply no output on the screen and no change after pressing enter multiple times.

The 9133-55A is currently hooked up to an HMC and works fine that way but not via serial.

Could someone who has done this via Linux nudge me along and let me know what settings you used? Going to retry with putty and windows as alot of the videos indicate and post if it was successful.

Cheers,
DH

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Sorry for bad subject. Can a moderator please change it to "Power5 9133-55A Serial Console connection issue"?

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serial_cs

SERIAL_CS(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						      SERIAL_CS(4)

NAME

       serial_cs - PCMCIA serial port driver

SYNOPSIS

       insmod serial_cs.o [pc_debug=n] [irq_list=i,j,...]  [do_sound=n]

DESCRIPTION

       Serial_cs  is  the Card Services driver for all PCMCIA serial devices, including modem cards.  When serial_cs is bound to a serial or modem
       card, it will generally attempt to allocate the first unused serial device for use by the card.	The device chosen will be recorded in  the
       kernel log file, and will also be reported to cardmgr(8).  The major and minor numbers and device name reported by serial_cs will match the
       corresponding "dialout" device (/dev/cua#).  The new device can be accessed using this device file or the corresponding /dev/ttyS#  device.
       The default serial card setup script will link the dialout device to /dev/modem.

PARAMETERS

       pc_debug=n
	      Selects  the PCMCIA debugging level.  This parameter is only available if the module is compiled with debugging enabled.	A non-zero
	      value enables debugging.

       irq_list=i,j,...
	      Specifies the set of interrupts that may be allocated by this driver.

       do_sound=n
	      A flag specifying if speaker output should be enabled.  The default is 1 (true).	Set to 0 to disable speaker output.

AUTHOR

       David Hinds - dahinds@users.sourceforge.net

SEE ALSO

       cardmgr(8), pcmcia(5).

pcmcia-cs							2000/06/12 21:24:48						      SERIAL_CS(4)