At first, you need to enable serial ports in your BIOS and wire them up to the case front (if they aren’t allready).
Make sure you have the following in your /boot/grub/menu.lst:
serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
terminal --timeout=10 serial console
# kopt=root= ro console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8
Check that “ttyS0″ is in /etc/securetty, remove /etc/ioctl.save, if its there.
Last change goes to /etc/inittab, add there:
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100
Now you can use a terminal program like minicom with 115200 baud, 8n1 and no flow control set.
Have fun and much luck on recovering your machine!
Okay … we got the serial port running (same like WRT54GS), so we could be more risky. After some tries I decided to work analog the WRT54G models.
Continue reading ‘WRTSL54GS debridged’
Don´t ask how, but we got some units to europe.
The first thing we does, was to install openwrt and to try debridge the switch to have multiple interfaces instead. We was able to remove ports from the switch, but cant create additional working vlans like on WRT54G. So at this point its useless for our purpose. But we will start exploring as son as possible we have a running serial console.
On the way to get an acceptable mail client (kmail) on Mac OSX, I installed fink and updated to unstable tree and did run selfupdate-cvs. After the update FinkCommander neither the version shipped by fink 0.8 nor the latest binary package did run anymore.
So I decided to build it from cvs and installed the recent XCode compiler and SDK packages (2.3):
$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@finkcommander.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/finkcommander login
$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@finkcommander.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/finkcommander co -P .
$ open FinkCommander/FinkCommander.xcodeproj
XCode will start and in the Project menu set Active Build Configuration to Deployment and in the Build menu select Build. After some time the build will be finished, you need to find the FinkCommnader.app and copy it to your Programm folder. Thats it! (-;
