Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:24:44 -0400 From: Brendan Kelliher <brendan.lists@murphy.com> To: Tim Hogan <tim@hoganzoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console connectivity question. Message-ID: <3F95339C.4020700@murphy.com> References: <3F953099.5060908@hoganzoo.com>
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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
>
>
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