In preparation for the (final!) arrival of the APC, I have been setting up a suitable serial console connection, via USB to a UART, and have tested it on the Raspberry Pi..<\/p>\n
After remembering (from years ago..) that you have to connect TX to RX – and vice-versa – the serial console worked without a problem, but ‘blanked’ when the Fedora 17 system had finished booting..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recent versions of Fedora use systemd<\/strong> in place of inittab etc, and this needs to be configured for the appropriate port connection (\/dev\/ttyAMA0 on the Pi) and the correct baud rate..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Details are in the Fedora wiki – http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Systemd#How_do_I_set_automatic_login_on_a_virtual_console_terminal.3F<\/a> – and it is (IMHO) rather over-complicated and byzantine, but such is progress!<\/p>\n\ufffd\ufffd In preparation for the (final!) arrival of the APC, I have been setting up a suitable serial console connection, via USB to a UART, and have tested it on the Raspberry Pi.. After remembering (from years ago..) that you have to connect TX to RX – and vice-versa – the serial console worked without a problem, but …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,11,16,19,21],"tags":[89,101,154,313,337,355,384],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apc","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-linux-arm","category-opinion","category-raspberry-pi","tag-apc-2","tag-boot","tag-fedora-2","tag-raspberry-pi-2","tag-serial-console","tag-systemd","tag-usb-uart-converter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
\nKernel 3.2.24 on an armv6l (ttyAMA0)rgpi login:<\/p>\n<\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"