Subject: A2232 and serial consoles
To: None <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: John Klos <john@sixgirls.org>
List: port-amiga
Date: 03/10/2001 15:05:46
Hello,

I'm about to colocate another Amiga, and I am interested in setting up
serial consoles for several other machines in that colocation facility.

To that end, I bought a Commodore A2232 seven port serial card.

I see, vaguely, that NetBSD supports the A2232 either in it's regular form
or in it's modified form; That's good.

But does anyone know the best way to support serial consoles for other
machines? I know how to compile a kernel that uses the serial port by
default (or I think I do), but what should I do on the machine that will
serve the serial console? Do I run a terminal program and leave it in the
background? How do I make it so that the serial from the other machine
gets keption and a serial program can connect to it?

Advice?

Thanks,
John Klos
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