comconsole

I run a FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE-p3 box with a consumer mainboard and an Intel Xeon CPU. I want to access this machine on a console using a USB to TIA-232-F adapter cable which I bought together with a PCIe card for this purpose. (So I can take out the GPU again [which I only put in when I lose SSH...

What am I missing? % cat /boot/loader.conf boot_multicons="NO" console="comconsole" boot_serial="YES" % conscontrol list Configured: ttyu1,ttyv0 Available: ttyu1,ttyv0 Muting: off I get boot messages on both ttyu1 and ttyv0. This is in BeagleBone Black, if it matters.

I have been successfully connecting FreeBSD machines to Windows machines through the serial port and with the help of what I call "a serial COM port cable" and a USB-COMPORT adapter. I use putty since it is the simplest. On the FreeBSD machine, I have these lines present in the /boot/loader.conf...