I've tried some different things and here's what I've come up with: For serial logins to work *at all* i need to set "set tty com0" in boot.conf. As soon as I remove "set tty com0" from boot.conf and restart, serial logins no longer works. I'm sure this is not the intended behaviour. my ttys line: tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure Lars