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Turning Your Mac Into a Serial Console Server

Posted by timothy on from the platinum-anchor dept.

chrisbw writes "Want to put that old VT100 terminal to use? Mac OS X Hits has a story on how to make a couple simple changes in OS X to enable login on a serial terminal (even over a USB serial adapter if you're on a newer mac). Cool trick for adding a text-based web surfing or email terminal in another room, or remote iTunes control!"

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  1. Re:USB by chrisbw · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, my point was that if you're on a newer Mac that doesn't have a serial port, that you can use a USB serial adapter and OS X will happily use it as a regular tty.

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  2. Open Firmware boot to serial input by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Yes.

    This might answer your questions (look at section 6):

    http://www.netbsd.org/

    Short answer:

    setenv input-device ttya
    setenv output-device ttya