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> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote:
> WARNING:  This is still highly experimental and by no
> means ready for "production use", ...
> 
> To boot FreeBSD on your RaspberryPi, you'll need:
>   1) A RaspberryPi.
>   2) A serial cable similar to this one:  www.adafruit.com/products/954


On Nov 8, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Sami Halabi wrote:
> 
> why the console cable is needed ?
> 


As far as I can tell, the code in FreeBSD-CURRENT
does not yet support the video out.  So you need
a serial console cable to interact with it.

You might be able to interact via SSH but
that requires a little bit more setup (a root
password needs to be set and you need to
edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to allow root logins).

If someone knows how to get the video out
to work, I'm very interested!

Tim