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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!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Console on serial port? Date: 7 Jun 1997 14:32:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5nbre1$2h6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5n90tc$909@news.gvsu.edu> <5n92rr$h9c$1@news.eecs.umich.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42570 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. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)