[OpenIndiana-discuss] Setup serial console on ttyc (the third serial port)

[wessels]

ough, that's a real bummer and waste of time. This restriction is not
very well documented. Everybody talked about ttya and ttyb but no ever
mentioned that other ports are not supported apart from usb-serial.

Now I've to figure out how the ports will get reshuffled if I change
the SOL port from com3 to com2. Both com1 and com2 are in use. I
wonder what's going to happen to them... If I get this working, that's
all three ports, I'll put up a page on the wiki.
Thanks for the notice sofar. Anything else I should worry about?

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Andrew Gabriel
<illumos at cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> wessels wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps all described procedures work on ttya but I can't get a console on
>> ttyc.
>>
>> ttyc (the third serial port) is a SerialOverLan port
>
> Sorry, but the kernel only recognizes ttya and ttyb (and usb-serial) as
> console= values, not ttyc.
>
> It's been a very long missing feature on Solaris x86, but became less
> important as the number of motherboard serial ports has reduced over the
> years, and ISA-bus serial cards became unusable (no ISA-bus slots anymore).
>
> Can you disable ttya (com1) in the BIOS, and then reconfigure ttyc (com3) to
> have the i/o address and irq which were associated with com1, so it looks
> like com1 (ttya) to the OS? (IIRC, 0x3f8 and IRQ 4)
>
> --
> Andrew
>
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