Re: [cubieboard] Serial Console Keyboard Not Working?

[Simos Xenitellis]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:53 PM, George Ioakimedes <georg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I must be brain dead. I connected to TTL-to-USB cable to the Cubie on
> the header and when the board boots I can see the kernel messages. I can aso
> plug and unplug the keyboard and see the USB keyboard enumerate but the
> console doesn't respond to anything I type.
>
> What stupid thing am I forgetting about?
>

AFAIK, the console is currently not designed to respond to keyboard input.
I do not know which component needs changing in order to have the
console to accept input.
Perhaps run a 'getty' on the console device?
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getty&sektion=8

Simos

[jons...@gmail.com]

UART support is implemented in two places in the kernel. Early printk
support (from your post that seems to be working and is output only)
and normal tty drivers. Seems like the normal tty driver is missing or
not built into the kernel.

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[Michal Suchanek]

On 27 January 2013 20:53, George Ioakimedes <georg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I must be brain dead. I connected to TTL-to-USB cable to the Cubie on
> the header and when the board boots I can see the kernel messages. I can aso
> plug and unplug the keyboard and see the USB keyboard enumerate but the
> console doesn't respond to anything I type.
>
> What stupid thing am I forgetting about?

Maybe that's another stupid question but you don't expect that what
you type on the USB keyboad somehow magically appears on the serial
line, do you?

Other than that the TTL cable has no hardware flow control lines so
hardware flow control has to be turned off for the input you try to
send over serial port to reach the board.

HTH

Michal

[jons...@gmail.com]

There could also be an issue with DTR/CTS on the USB to serial
converter. You can usually turn those signals on/off in the terminal
emulator app. I have one non-A10 board that won't work without those
lines.

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