On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 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.
A PCI Firewire card can be had for $20 or so.. Much nicer than RS232 debugging too (a shitload faster for a start) -- 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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