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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mtu.edu!msunews!gvsu!river.it.gvsu.edu!behrensm From: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Console on serial port? Date: 8 Jun 1997 03:29:52 GMT Organization: Grand Valley State University Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5nd8vg$434@news.gvsu.edu> References: <5n90tc$909@news.gvsu.edu> <5n92rr$h9c$1@news.eecs.umich.edu> <5nbre1$2h6@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: river.it.gvsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42590 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : pmchen@life.eecs.umich.edu (Peter M. Chen) wrote: : > No problem. Check out /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.serial : Bah, i eventually forgot that this file does even exist. There are : now a number of other options (since the keyboard probe didn't prove : to be failsafe, given the crappy design used in PC technology). See : also the Makefile in the same directory for these options. : Also, Matt probably doesn't want to make it dependant on the existance : of a keyboard at all, as it seems to me. True, however that file covered what I needed to know (including the bit about COMCONSOLE, which (thankfully) I did not need to force. I might plug my keyboard back in again someday.) :) -- Matt Behrens Zigg Computer Services zigg@iserv.net http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/