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Date:      Sat, 9 Mar 1996 12:04:46 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        mdz@netrail.net (Matt Zimmerman)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Serial console?
Message-ID:  <199603090134.MAA11451@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960307185331.30725A-100000@netrail.net> from "Matt Zimmerman" at Mar 7, 96 06:56:53 pm

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Matt Zimmerman stands accused of saying:
> 
> 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.

options COMCONSOLE in your kernel config, rebuild, reboot.

> // Matt Zimmerman       Chief of System Management           NetRail, Inc.

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