Installation

I'm at a loss. It's starting to sound like something bad happened to the ALIX board. Maybe some of the embedded experts can help.

Plug in the serial and then power up the alix board. At that point you should see your bios info on you serial session.

if you dont get that, you have a broken board or cable or adapter.  until you get that working, there is no point figuring our monowall issues.

Use your mac for the serial session instead of hyperterm.

i assume the green light  comes on on your alix ?
As you reinstalled monowall the interface assignments are probably wrong.

Yes,  the  ALIX  green  light  is  up.

Could  you  please  let  me  know  how  the  serial  session  is  to  be  established ?
I  assume  that  after  plugging  in  the  serial  cable, Terminal  is  launched  and
what  is  the  command  to  type ?

Your  help  is  greatly  appreciated.

This is how I do it.

check what device entry you have for your usb adapter, something like /dev/tty.PL2303

then do

Code:

screen /dev/tty.PL2303 38400

and this will launch a screen session on that device at speed of 38400.

to exit screen type

Code:

ctrl-a

then

Code:

d

this will bring you back to your shell, then kill screen with

Code:

killall SCREEN

if that doesn't work, try a different speed like 9600

to learn more about screen  http://linuxgazette.net/147/appaiah.html

Thank You  for  that.
I'll  try  this  out  and  report  back.

Regards,

bash-3.2$ ls /dev/tty.*
/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem        /dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync


The  message  above  was  the  one  I  observed  after  executing  'Screen'  on  terminal.
This  suggests  that  my  serial-USB  adapter  isn't  on  the  list  above.