FreeBSD Serial Console Access

I enabled serial console access on one of my FreeBSD 5.0 RELEASE boxes. First I checked to see the serial ports available:

#dmesg | grep sio
usb0: USB revision 1.0
sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A

I checked to see what devices I had:

#ls -al /dev/cua*
crw------- 1 root wheel 28, 128 Feb 3 22:07 /dev/cuaa0
crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 129 Feb 3 21:50 /dev/cuaa1
crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 160 Feb 3 21:50 /dev/cuaia0
crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 161 Feb 3 21:50 /dev/cuaia1
crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 192 Feb 3 21:50 /dev/cuala0
crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 193 Feb 3 21:50 /dev/cuala1


Then I added the following line to /etc/ttys



cuaa0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.38400" vt100 on secure

Then I restarted init via 'kill -HUP 1' and checked to see what had changed:



#ps -auxww | grep cua
root 493 0.0 0.3 1184 864 a0 Is+ Mon10PM 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty std.38400 cuaa0

Now I can use Windows HyperTerminal or a similar program to access my FreeBSD box using a serial cable and null modem.

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