PUC rewrite

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Sat Jul 26 03:32:59 UTC 2008


At 11:17 PM 7/25/2008, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

>Ok, I was a bit too imprecise. While the number
>doesn't matter, it has to be 0, 1, 2 or 3 for
>the flags to take effect for the console.
>So, change 4 to 3 and it should work.

Thanks!  Yes, that works now

>Alternatively, remove the flags hint for uart.4
>and instead set the following in /boot/loader.conf:
>
>         hw.uart.console="io:0x3f8"

Yes, this works as well.  Perhaps it would be good to add this to the 
man page ?  Thanks for the help in getting it working!

         ---Mike


>This is the new and improved way of setting up
>a serial console. Besides the io tag it allows
>setting baudrate and much more. But for you,
>this should be enough.
>
>HTH,
>
>--
>Marcel Moolenaar
>xcllnt at mac.com
>
>



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