From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 24 18:15:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B5E1065672 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:15:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mjl@luckie.org.nz) Received: from mailfilter30.ihug.co.nz (mailfilter30.ihug.co.nz [203.109.136.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D75718FC17 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:15:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.0 c=1 a=rLIBlA-vWZoA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=w7OezyZoM4UgAbyPqUUjXw==:17 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=MuQI5dkTAAAA:8 a=8NZjK4SrvEd8-msmTywA:9 a=sFVB1YKS4ZfVSHmtCakA:7 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=-LCMuRE4GsYA:10 a=9GUppweYLAgA:10 a=r_klr6zk-y8A:10 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAFAE8W9k52XBcp/2dsb2JhbAApGoUPpyqBBoFyAQEFIxUeIgEQCxgCAgUNAQgLAgIJAwIBAgEnHgYNAQcBAQWHeSOlSJEVgS+HQgGCB4EWBJUCjgCESg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,404,1320577200"; d="scan'208";a="149773903" Received: from 118-92-23-41.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz (HELO spandex.luckie.org.nz) ([118.92.23.41]) by cust.filter1.content.vf.net.nz with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 25 Dec 2011 07:15:22 +1300 Received: from mylar.luckie.org.nz ([192.168.1.24]) by spandex.luckie.org.nz with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ReW7t-0000ZH-Sb; Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:15:21 +1300 Message-ID: <4EF616DC.7000408@luckie.org.nz> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:15:56 +1300 From: Matthew Luckie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111110 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk References: <4EF59C88.2010202@luckie.org.nz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serial consoles X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:15:24 -0000 On 12/25/11 01:17, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > Perhaps the following pages will be helpful : > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serial.html#SERIAL-CABLES-PORTS > http://www.freebsddiary.org/serial-console.php > > Thank you very much . I've read them while trying to get this going. Just a comment on the freebsd handbook pages: they seem to still talk about the sio driver which I understand is deprecated in freebsd8. One thing I have not done is touch /boot/loader.conf. I'm not worried about seeing the system boot messages, just the ability to login after the system has booted -- i.e. I did not do step 2 of 27.6.2. Should I have? Matthew