From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 21 06:26:53 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 B87BF16A4BF for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fw1.murphy.com (fw1.murphy.com [192.48.113.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FBF643F3F for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brendan.lists@murphy.com) Received: (qmail 18081 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2003 13:26:38 -0000 Received: from frodo.internal.murphy.com (198.6.207.126) by fw1.internal.murphy.com with SMTP; 21 Oct 2003 13:26:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 10723 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2003 13:26:49 -0000 Received: from arwen.internal.murphy.com (HELO murphy.com) (198.6.207.124) by frodo.internal.murphy.com with SMTP; 21 Oct 2003 13:26:49 -0000 Message-ID: <3F95339C.4020700@murphy.com> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:24:44 -0400 From: Brendan Kelliher User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Hogan References: <3F953099.5060908@hoganzoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 13:26:53 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:26:53 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:26:53 -0000 Tim, I usually add "-h" to /boot.config and edit the "ttyd0" line in /etc/ttys to look something like: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure Also see the FreeBSD handbook entry on this subject: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html -- Brendan Kelliher Tim Hogan wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"