On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:27:11AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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).
Ah, now that I think about it, I see why it won't work... good catch. I didn't think it all the way through. :-) Firewire is an alternative which won't work for a different reason: none of my BSD machines at home have support for Firewire. Bummer. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
