On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 03:28:44PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Not only is this not a practical solution, it will not even work. > > First, it's not practical because in order to put a modem into any > modern machine, I will need to find a modem supported by Linux. Most > often, this will typically not be a hardware modem, but a software modem > that has Linux drivers, proprietary. This means I'm supposed to taint a > production server kernel merely because I occasionally need a modem. > Sounds like more trouble than it's worth to me. >
I do hope that there are also few `open modems', so to speak, out there. Anyway, external modem should work. > Then again, it will simply not work. The situation I'm talking about > here is a situation in which the machine paniced. Under these > conditions, there is no device support at all, much less a remote console. > What about Documentation/sysrq.txt? -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw (sent by shaulk @ actcom . net . il) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
