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Subject: Re: using FreeBSD with serial port console
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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> is it tested? how to set it up (with 38400 8N1 console)?
> 
> i am out of PCI slots, lots of free PCI express slots, but it makes no
> sense to buy PCIe graphics card (no cheap ones, all
> ultra-hyper-3D-powereaters) to connect old 14" monitor used rarely with
> text-mode only.
> 
> so i would like to remove graphics card to make space for one more PCI
> thing.

Possible and documented :)
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms.html
particularly
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html


Vince

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