Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:33:00 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PUC rewrite Message-ID: <200807260332.m6Q3WuQh022782@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <FA836BB3-735C-458C-82FD-D479FA489242@mac.com> References: <200806061259.m56CxhdR045603@lava.sentex.ca> <018816ED-8FF3-4834-AD17-59637C87D30D@mac.com> <200807252129.m6PLTwhs021540@lava.sentex.ca> <2F58935E-6439-45A1-9CB3-894FC577ECF2@mac.com> <200807260213.m6Q2D22u022503@lava.sentex.ca> <7A311400-66E1-43F0-8B5F-22658D5276A0@mac.com> <200807260235.m6Q2ZwcS022585@lava.sentex.ca> <FA836BB3-735C-458C-82FD-D479FA489242@mac.com>
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At 11:17 PM 7/25/2008, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>Ok, I was a bit too imprecise. While the number
>doesn't matter, it has to be 0, 1, 2 or 3 for
>the flags to take effect for the console.
>So, change 4 to 3 and it should work.
Thanks! Yes, that works now
>Alternatively, remove the flags hint for uart.4
>and instead set the following in /boot/loader.conf:
>
> hw.uart.console="io:0x3f8"
Yes, this works as well. Perhaps it would be good to add this to the
man page ? Thanks for the help in getting it working!
---Mike
>This is the new and improved way of setting up
>a serial console. Besides the io tag it allows
>setting baudrate and much more. But for you,
>this should be enough.
>
>HTH,
>
>--
>Marcel Moolenaar
>xcllnt@mac.com
>
>
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