From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 3 18:37:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733AA16A403 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 18:37:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A5C43D49 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 18:37:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from [172.23.170.141] (helo=anti-virus02-08) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gg3uy-0006D6-Uc; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:37:28 +0000 Received: from [82.43.34.109] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gg3uy-0004AA-89; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:37:28 +0000 Message-ID: <454B8D84.2070006@tomjudge.com> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:42:12 +0000 From: Tom Judge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian A. Seklecki" References: <20061031175606.P63561@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> <20061101025904.GA30503@duncan.reilly.home> <1162361104.4169.525.camel@compulsion> <20061101084044.GA8922@drowsy.duskware.de> <20061103130046.T60549@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> In-Reply-To: <20061103130046.T60549@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Martin Husemann , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware Console Redirection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:37:31 -0000 Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > > Right, and the Dell PE uses "com 2", or "com1" (when properly counting > from 0), ah la 0x2F8 which is logically connected to a serial port on > the DRAC5 via the daughterboard connection. > The drac [345] Cards actually hook into or present a new vga adapter to the system (this can be seen as an ati chipset on the drac 4 pci addin cards) They also present a soft keyboard an mouse to the system via a set of usb devices. If you also use the bios console redirection the bios is sent to the configured serial port. FreeBSD fully supports the dell drac [345] cards (at least RELENG_6 does which i guess means 7 does), I have a largs number of these cards working perfectly in production. Using the drac web interface you can send the system a scroll lock and scroll back the system console as if you where using the physical console. So there is no need to be conected all of the time. On a side note it is advisable to put (device kbdmux) into your kernel if you want to use both the physical console and the drac console access, otherwise the usb devices provided by the drac disable the physical keyboard. If you have DRAC cards in you dell systems I would recomend the console access in them over serial port redirection as it is much simpler to setup. Tom