Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 02:30:30 -0500 (EST) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: "M. Monninger" <markem@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial Console? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980108022750.398A-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980107213516.00998970@pop.primenet.com>
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I just grabbed a bunch of stuff out of the mailing list archives. I searched "questions" and "hackers" using the search phrases "comconsole" and "serial AND console" and came up with everything i needed. A good starting point is /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.serial If you don't have source on your machine, you can look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb and browse starting at "src". Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- "I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man Just a mortal with potential of a superman I'm living on" -DB On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, M. Monninger wrote: > I want to run my gateway box headless (no keyboard or monitor) using a > vt100 emulator on a PC via a null-modem cable for a serial console. How > should the port (ttyd0) be configured, i.e. should I run a getty on it? > Which gettytab entry? What do I have to specify so that console messages be > directed to it? > > I looked thru the handbook & FAQ but didn't see anything specific to this > application. > > FWIW, it's an 8M 486DX-33 box (running 2.2.5) built out of extra > (obsolete?) bits I had laying around. All I'm using it for is to run natd > between my dsl line and my four-node home lan. It works great. > > Many thanks... > > Mark >
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