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.