Re: irda on the ipaq shell WORKING

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:13:17 +0100
Danny Norging <danny.norging_at_gmx.de> wrote:

> after some testing last night, i am now able to get a shell via irda.
> The basic idea is, *not* to use the "console=..." kernel boot
> paramter, but instead hardcode the "console via irda" into /dev. So
> here are the instructions:
Very interesting idea. Still, I don't understand why
"console=ttyS2,115200n8" doesn't work while linking /dev/console to
/dev/ttyS2 works. I was thinking it is because some weird stuff is done
wrong in drivers/serial/pxa.c, but now I see it works.

> 1) build initrd with Andrews initrd-kit (was available at
> http://zap.sh.nu:8000/files/initrd-kit.tar.bz2 but right now i am
> getting a "connection refused") as root with:
This is my home machine, and when I'm at work it's either powered off,
or my wife plays windoz games.

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Greetings,
   Andrew