[OpenWrt-Users] Warning: unable to open an initial console on speedport w701v

Thomas Schäfer tschaefer at t-online.de
Mon Aug 6 23:10:28 CEST 2007


Am Montag, 6. August 2007 20:42 schrieb Jan Willies:
> Thomas Schäfer wrote:
> > Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>
> It's a normal message, no idea where its origin is but I have it on
> nearly every router I flashed with OpenWrt. It's harmless (at least I
> think so). Just hit <enter> and you should have a prompt.
>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem at redhat.com>
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 108k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.

<enter>  <space> "any key" nothing happens

All  leds are on  (except LAN2,LAN3,LAN4, not connected)



> Please keep me posted if you get DSL working. I can see in my logs that
> it syncs but I can't "ifup wan" the connection (no such address, atm0
> doesn't exist, or something). Maybe I should play with br2684ctl a bit.
>

 I will tell you everything which seems to be a step forward.

Thomas



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