EduardCH wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:32 am
I'm trying to set up serial port as a local console on my PfSense setup on fitlet2. It looks like that it doesn't recognize local serial port. Is it possible to make it work? Serial works fine in POST and BIOS.
Hi Eduard,
What pfSense installer did you use? Or is pfSense already installed?
I came across the same question while trying to get serial output working for Ubuntu 20.04. Since serial console always worked out of the box with pfSense I booted up the pfSense installer (pfSense-CE-memstick-serial-2.4.5-RELEASE-p1-amd64). And I didn't get it to work either but got it to mostly working with Ubuntu but with tweaking. With Fedora 33 it worked out of the box. As mentioned in a
wiki entry from Compulab in Linux the serial port is ttyS6 not ttyS0 as it is usually.
My take of it is: Since it happens after the BIOS gives control over to the OS, it's an OS issue and Compulab can't do much. Open an issue with FreeBSD/pfSense would be your best option.
It's most likely an issue with OS support for "Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series HSUART Controller" which handles the serial console.
I tried setting the serial console manually in the pfSense installer (press '3' in the installer menu) but it didn't help. What I tried:
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set boot_serial=YES
set comconsole_speed=115200
set comconsole_port="0x3f8"
set hw.uart.console="io:0x3f8,br:115200"
set console=comconsole
In theory you could also set which PCI device is used for the serial console but in my case the setting go rejected. It also got rejected in Linux but there you can force it... but not for pfSense/FreeBSD.
How to (unsuccessfully) set the serial console PCI device:
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set comconsole_pcidev="0:0:0x18:2"
Maybe some of the information above can be of help
/Thomas