From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Nov 18 15:29:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00F237B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:29:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com (angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com [216.223.196.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C89443E8A for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:29:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com) Received: (qmail 18378 invoked by uid 85); 18 Nov 2002 23:28:28 -0000 Received: from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com by angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com by uid 1001 with qmail-scanner-1.10 (sophie: 2.9/3.56. . Clear:0. Processed in 0.059337 secs); 18 Nov 2002 23:28:28 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: spork@fasttrackmonkey.com via angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.10 (Clear:0. Processed in 0.059337 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (64.47.30.2) by 0 with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 18 Nov 2002 23:28:28 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:29:35 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: serial console and "F2" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I've been googling and fiddling with all the boxes here with serial console bios redirection, and I'm completely stumped. On a number of boxes here (Intel, Tyan, Supermicro), there is an option to redirect the BIOS to a serial console. That works fine, but these all want a key pressed such as "F2" or "DEL" to enter the BIOS setup. Anyone else tackled this before? I see no way in either minicom or my console server software (conserver) to send these extended keys. Not freebsd specific, but I'm guessing there's some folks here that already have this going... Any ideas? Thanks, Charles To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message