livebox:portable

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Both sides previous revision Previous revision
livebox:portable [2016/01/30 01:06] – [External hardware] brettlivebox:portable [2016/01/30 01:09] (current) – [External hardware] brett
Line 102: Line 102:
 Why do you need this initserial=+++ configuration line? Why do you need this initserial=+++ configuration line?
  
-The external hardware goes into a loop and listen on the serial port consuming all the console text the livebox emitted and simply discards it until it see the +++ token.   I do this so that some spurious piece of livebox startup text won't trigger the external hardware to do something it should not.   This token on the livebox is normally emitted by the /etc/init.d/controlpcb livebox startup script.   HOWEVER that script does not exist in the portable distribution as it makes no sense as the  HAH hardware is not attached to the console serial port.  So we use this initserial= argument as a workaround.+The external hardware goes into a loop and listens on the serial port consuming all the console text the livebox emits and discards it until it see the +++ token.   This is done to prevent some spurious piece of livebox startup text from triggering the external hardware to do something it should not.   This token on the livebox is emitted by the /etc/init.d/controlpcb livebox startup script however this script does not exist in the portable distribution.  Even if it did its output would not be down the serial port where the external hardware is, it would be the console serial port. So we use this initserial= argument as a workaround.
  • livebox/portable.txt
  • Last modified: 2016/01/30 01:09
  • by brett