[SOLVED] Serial console issues

[sens_ible]

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

[fabian]

I use minicom and this is the content of my config file for my OPNsense profile:

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pu port             /dev/ttyUSB0


The filename is "/etc/minirc.opnsense" and I can attach the shell using "minicom opnsense" as root.

[franco]

Maybe it's the connector / cable.


Cheers,
Franco

[sens_ible]

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

[franco]

Hi sens_ible,

Thanks for sharing your solution!  :)


Cheers,
Franco