On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, H=E5kan Th=F6rngren wrote:

> I do not have a monitor on my NetBSD/sparc.  The console seems to be
> targeted to the keyboard/monitor when a keyboard is present, but it
> seems to steal /dev/ttya otherwise?
> I have configured the boot prom to use keyboard/monitor but it does
> not seem to obey it when I remove the keyboard.  Since I have a modem
> attached to /dev/ttya it does not work very well...
> Is there a way to get rid of this "feature" and have it obey the boot
> prom?

Actually, IIRC, the PROM is what is failing over to the serial port,
not NetBSD.  It [the PROM] assumes that since you don't have a keyboard,
you'll want to use a terminal.

The easiest thing I can think of is to try putting the modem on port B, or
specify the serial console as port B... of course, I don't know if that'd
be a problem with your specific setup, but that's my $0.02

-Jon Lindgren
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