I have installed OPNsense-17.7-OpenSSL-nano-i386 and it seems that the system is booting properly.
When the system is booting, I can see all messages properly and after some time I arrive at the login prompt. However, I can not send characters to login. I have to press some keys three or four times before the correct letter appears and some keys do not seem to work at all. Hence, I can not log in and got stuck at this point.
1) Does anybody know, which settings are expected by the serial console of OPNsense?
2) Does anybody know a terminal for Ubuntu which will work "out-of-the-box" (or which is at least easily configurable with the correct settings)?
3) Is there an alternative for login? I can see that one of the boxes interfaces has requested and received an IP-address, however, it will not respond to an SSH request or to an HTTP request to that interface.
I use an ALIX 2D3 board as OPN appliance and try to login via serial console from an Ubuntu 16.04 PC.
My settings for the serial terminal are:
Baudrate: 115200
Data bits: 8
Stop bits: 1
Parity: None
Flow control: XON/XOFF
I have tried the graphical PuTTY client and 'screen" on the CLI. In both cases I can not send data correctly.
Thanks a lot for your help
Markus
I use minicom and this is the content of my config file for my OPNsense profile:
pu port /dev/ttyUSB0
The filename is "/etc/minirc.opnsense" and I can attach the shell using "minicom opnsense" as root.
Maybe it's the connector / cable.
Cheers,
Franco
Thanks for all replies.
Finally, setting the flow control from "XON/XOFF" to "None" solved the problem.
Just in case anybody else faces the same problem
Hi sens_ible,
Thanks for sharing your solution! :)
Cheers,
Franco