From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 21 06:11:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5132E16A4BF for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwkea-mail-1.sun.com (nwkea-mail-1.sun.com [192.18.42.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3051C43FE1 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:11:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@hoganzoo.com) Received: from phys-giza-1 ([129.147.4.102]) by nwkea-mail-1.sun.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9LDBrUP021924 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hoganzoo.com (galaxy.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.24.95]) by giza-mail1.Central.Sun.COM (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HN300HO0ZBTQX@giza-mail1.Central.Sun.COM> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:11:53 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:11:53 -0600 From: Tim Hogan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <3F953099.5060908@hoganzoo.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020921 Netscape/7.0 Subject: console connectivity question. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:11:56 -0000 I have installed FreeBSD v4.8 on an Intel system that had a monitor and a keyboard attached at the time of install. I would now like to remove the monitor and keyboard and have a headless unit however I can't seem to make the serial port work as a console. Can't someone direct me to where to go to solve this problem? Thanks Tim