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?)
Jima