On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Ironically, I just bought an Inspiron 1525 for a friend of mine's son > as a birthday gift, so I do have access to one indirectly, and can > probably borrow it for a day or two if need be. It lacks a serial > port, so I'd have to buy a USB serial adapter for serial console if > remote console was needed.
Just FYI.. This won't work. You need a 'real' serial port for console, the other option would be to use Firewire (if the laptop has it). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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