[OmniOS-discuss] How do you configure serial ports on OmniOS?

[Tim Rice]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014, Chris Siebenmann wrote:

> | On Fri, 28 Feb 2014, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
> | >  This question makes me feel silly but I'm lost in a confusing maze of
> | > documentation for sacadm, pmadm, and so on and I can't find anything
> | > with web searches. What I would like to do is configure what I believe is
> | > /dev/term/c ('ttyS3' in Linux) to run a getty or the OmniOS/Illumos/etc
> | > equivalent at 115200 baud.
> | 
> | Seems like there should be a command to change the baud rate.
> | I've always just edited the _pmtab file.
> | 
> | disable the port (assuming pmadm -l shows it enabled)
> | # pmadm -d -p zsmon -s ttyc
> 
>  I should clarify something here: the port isn't listed in pmadm -l at
> all (although it exists in /dev/term). I assume that this means that
> I need to create it with some arguments; the exact arguments needed to
> set things up right (or right enough that I can edit files from there)
> are one of the things that I'm lost about.

Again, I'd just edit /etc/saf/zsmon/_pmtab and do a copy and 
paste of the ttyb line and make the necessary changes. Probably
want to start with ux (disabled) in the second field.
Then restart the port monitor and then enable the port.


> (The examples I've found of using pmadm to configure things seem to
> leave a lot out of magic, and they're often old enough that I'm not
> sure if things have changed since then.)


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