From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 5:23: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A1637B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 05:22:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-143-80.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.143.80]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA05293 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:22:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <00c701c0cd82$75270d30$0400a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: Subject: null modem . serial port networking Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:22:51 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Where can I find a simply worded HOWTO for configuring machines to communicate via serial ports ??. I poked around the mailing list archives & found a handbook reference to "setting up the serial console", however it appears an excessively involved solution for a very simple job, & apparently its unworkable anyway (multiport serial cards will not work) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message