On 5/25/05, Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2005, Scot Jenkins wrote: > > As far as the OS side of things, it depends on what flavor of *nix > > you're dealing with. Solaris supports serial console by default if > > you don't have a keyboard plugged in (use serial port A). Linux and > > FreeBSD can be quite easily configured for serial access. > > Actually, that's more of a SPARC-ism than a Solaris-ism. It's a feature > of the firmware; my Linux/SPARC machines do the same thing, and I imagine > BSD supports it just fine, too. (Does Solaris support it so easily on > x86?) yup, you're right, it is s SPARC thang. I've never tried it on Solaris x86.