[jwhat]

Hi Weblacky,

I had lots of trouble with console on my Fuel originally, but am happy with plugging into L1 USB via L2 Emulator as it avoids having to open up case all the time.

As part of looking at this (a while bak) I noticed that there are the POD/CAC commands for console selection:
>> A 000 001c01: Console Selection
>> A 000 001c01: Use IOC3/IOC4 UART: ioc
>> A 000 001c01: Use JunkBus UART: junk
>> A 000 001c01: Use SysCtlr UART: elsc
>> A 000 001c01: Use Net UART: talk [n:NODE SLICE]

I have asked previously if anyone knows specific details on these alternates.
IOC3/IOC4 would seem to be likely candidates for com1 (external port).
Unfortunately there does not appear to be a command to find current setting.

Also as the environment variables for PROM get overridden based on whether you have keyboard plugged in at boot, I thought that maybe the POC/CAC environment settings might have some impact. So I did printenv in POD/CAC mode and got this:
>> A 000 001c01: POD SysCt Cac> printenv
>> A 000 001c01: LastModule 1
>> A 000 001c01: SCACHEWARCnt 0
>> A 000 001c01: PartitionID 0
>> A 000 001c01: NASID 0
>> A 000 001c01: CpuMask 2000
>> A 000 001c01: MemMask 22220000
>> A 000 001c01: Premium f
>> A 000 001c01: MemorySize 55550000

There does not appear to be anyhing related to console here... but the CpuMask raised an eyebrow.

Could you look at your 700 MHZ machies and see what it reports for its POD/CAC environment variables.

Thank you.

Cheers from Oz,


jwhat/John.