problems with console ports

Hello,

I'm a first time user of "conserver".  Been using "rtty" for some time 
now, but since it's not actively developed anymore, I've decided to try 
conserver.  I've got it installed fine (I think).  I have a couple 
hundred Cyclades serial ports connected via PCI cards.  I can connect to 
a Cisco switch and manage it fine with 'minicom'.  When I reboot the 
switch, the 'conserver' program properly captures the serial console 
output, and dumps it into the logfile (/var/log/console/ttyC48) 
properly.  ...so it seems to be reading off of the serial line properly.

However, when I try and log in via "console ttyC48", I get no reply back 
from the device.  I tried "^eco" - and it replies back "[up]".  I also 
have a couple of Solaris boxes connected via ttyC94 and ttyC95. 
'minicom' connects and interacts with them without any problems. However 
'console ttyC94' does the same thing, nothing.

I'm running 9600 8n1 via minicom, and set the conserver.cf config to use 
9600 baud, even parity.  Here are the relavent conserver.cf entries:

   ttyC48:/dev/ttyC48:9600e:&:
   ttyC94:/dev/ttyC94:9600e:&:
   ttyC95:/dev/ttyC95:9600e:&:

When running 'conserver -D -v' - here's the relavent output for ttyC48 
(cisco switch):


[Mon May  5 12:40:25 2003] conserver (9266): DEBUG: ReadLine(): 
returning <ttyC48:/dev/ttyC48:9600e:&:>
[Mon May  5 12:40:25 2003] conserver (9266): INFO: [ttyC48] /dev/ttyC48 
(9600e) logged to /var/log/console/ttyC48
[Mon May  5 12:40:25 2003] conserver (9267): DEBUG: DestroyConsent(): 
destroying `ttyC48'
    ... snip of duplicates ...
[Mon May  5 12:40:39 2003] conserver (9282): DEBUG: DestroyConsent(): 
destroying `ttyC48'
[Mon May  5 12:40:42 2003] conserver (9270): INFO: [ttyC48] user 
root@goober2 authenticated
[Mon May  5 12:40:42 2003] conserver (9270): [ttyC48] login root@goober2
[Mon May  5 12:40:51 2003] conserver (9270): [ttyC48] logout root@goober2
[Mon May  5 12:40:54 2003] conserver (9266): DEBUG: 
DumpDataStructures():  server=ttyC48, dfile=/dev/ttyC48, 
lfile=/var/log/console/ttyC48
[Mon May  5 12:40:54 2003] conserver (9266): DEBUG: DestroyConsent(): 
destroying `ttyC48'
[Mon May  5 12:40:55 2003] conserver (9270): DEBUG: 
DumpDataStructures():  server=ttyC48, dfile=/dev/ttyC48, 
lfile=/var/log/console/ttyC48
[Mon May  5 12:40:55 2003] conserver (9270): DEBUG: DestroyConsent(): 
destroying `ttyC48'


I'm running all of this on a RedHat Linux 8.0 platform, stock kernel, on 
a Dell 2650 server, and Cyclades Z series terminal server boards.

Any ideas? Thoughts?

v/r
Shane
sgibson@digitalimpact.com