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Re: how to setup serial console on my mac?



--- On Tue, 12/2/08, Donald Lee <MacPPC2%caution.icompute.com@localhost> wrote:
> The easiest way to set up a serial console is to direct OFW
> to "ttya".
> 
>     setenv input-device ttya
>     setenv output-device ttya
>     reset-all
> 
> ttya is the "modem port".
> 
> My experience is that if OFW is operating on serial, the
> NetBSD console
> will be as well.
> 
> -dgl-

Donald,
Thanks for your email. I have no problem using serial console if I set 
input-device to ttya. If I do this I can no longer use monitor and keyboard. Is 
there any way of having both monitor, keyboard and ttya?

Cheers,
Tomas




      


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