From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 18:48:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA29990 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:48:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA29985 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:48:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA01502 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:43:21 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sovcom.kiae.su with SMTP id AA22110 (5.65.kiae-1 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:11:47 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17390 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:05:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA16700 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:03:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from netrail.net (mdz@netrail.net [205.215.6.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16682 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:02:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mdz@localhost) by netrail.net (8.7.3/8.6.12) id SAA30925; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:56:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:56:53 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Zimmerman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Serial console? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Charset: KOI8-R X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Has any work been done on adapting a console driver to talk VT100/220 on a serial port, rather than using the keyboard and VGA? If not, does anyone have any comments on what would be involved? Input shouldn't be too difficult, but I don't know much about how output is handled in the current setup. // Matt Zimmerman Chief of System Management NetRail, Inc. // mdz@netrail.net sales@netrail.net // (703) 524-4800 [voice] (703) 524-4802 [data] (703) 534-5033 [fax]