Fwd: Capio II 320 and Coreboot

[Corey Osgood]

Again, forgot to hit reply all, sorry.

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From: Corey Osgood 
Date: Feb 4, 2008 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [coreboot] Capio II 320 and Coreboot
To: Jeremy Wright

On Feb 4, 2008 4:58 PM, Jeremy Wright  wrote:
> Well, I wasn't able to get the output of any commands from a Capio running
> DSL, but I tried hooking the first serial port up to a laptop and I got some
> data when the Capio is powered on and the splash screen comes up (it's not
> much though). I assume that means there is some data exchange going on, but
> I'm not sure where to go next. The program I used was not a terminal
> emulator, it was just a serial program that captured all the hex output from
> the serial port. Is there any way to set up a serial console now so that I
> can see what FILO/Etherboot are doing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy

minicom and picocom are the usual targets, they allow you to use a console
over serial. most distros have minicom packages.

-Corey