From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 8 19:21:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA11471 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 19:21:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA02344 Fri, 8 Mar 1996 17:28:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA02306 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 17:27:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA02299 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 17:27:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA11451; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 12:04:47 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603090134.MAA11451@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Serial console? To: mdz@netrail.net (Matt Zimmerman) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 12:04:46 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Matt Zimmerman" at Mar 7, 96 06:56:53 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Matt Zimmerman stands accused of saying: > > Has any work been done on adapting a console driver to talk VT100/220 on a > serial port, rather than using the keyboard and VGA? If not, does anyone > have any comments on what would be involved? Input shouldn't be too > difficult, but I don't know much about how output is handled in the > current setup. options COMCONSOLE in your kernel config, rebuild, reboot. > // Matt Zimmerman Chief of System Management NetRail, Inc. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[