The ironic thing is that OpenBSD is being widely used in the world's largest tissue engineering labs -- which, and as crazy as it might seem, should be able to generate new eyes for blind people (based on their existing cells) in 5-10 years from now.
O.D. On 7. juli 2013 at 11:41 AM, "ropers" <rop...@gmail.com> wrote: > >You could try buying a USB-to-serial adapter or two. Simpler ones >aren't that expensive. These generally have limitations for >technical/electrical reasons: E.g. some serial devices may expect >to >be able to draw more juice than USB ports have. The gold standard >would be an optically isolated adapter with transient voltage >suppressors and an independent power supply – but using even a >simple >one just for console redirection ought to work. Ought to. I haven't >actually tried this and I do not currently own a USB-to-serial >adapter. > >Anyway, you would stick one of these into your laptop and then >connect >a null modem cable from that to another computer that has a serial >port. If your desktop computer doesn't have a serial port (WTF? >I've >never heard of that.), then you could do the same thing in reverse >with another USB-to-serial adapter. Once you have the console >redirected to serial, you could use a terminal emulator in >connection >with a screen reader to actually read that console output to you on >the other computer at the other end of the cable. > >To be really good for you, this might however require a change in >the >installer: Maybe the "Change the default console to com0?" question >could be moved "up" or duplicated, i.e. it would be asked very >early >on, pretty much as the first installer question, and there would >take >effect immediately, and maybe beep as well when asked. This would >be a >change to the installer (that I can't submit), but it oughtn't >really >take up that much additional space on the boot floppy. > >I admit this is idle speculation from an almost good-for-nothing >hanger-on, but I thought I'd share these ideas; maybe they'll end >up >actually helping you. > >I know this would be relying on you retrofitting legacy tech >(RS232), >and I admit that the inclusion of full-on native screen reader and >Braille terminal support in some installer USB stick might be >easier >for you, but in terms of the least effort overall to get something >that works, the console redirection might be easier overall, since >building and maintaining an all-singing, all-dancing USB stick >installer with all that good stuff included (and vetted for >vulnerabilities) would be a lot more additional work. > >Good luck! >ropers > >On 7 July 2013 04:43, eric oyen <eric.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >> what hardware? my laptop machine. also, its new enough that the >only serial it >> has is USB (which, as far as I know, doesn't support sserial >redirection). I >> also have a desktop machine and its new enough not to have any >classic serial >> ports either. so, no redirection there either. >> and since there is no way for me to actually tell when it boots, >getting to a >> login prompt and then redirecting the screen output is not >entirely possible >> without someone sitting right there to tell me whats going on. >> >> This isn't anything like the old sparc pizza boxes where you >could do this at >> the outset and actually have it work the first time. >> >> anyway, thats the rub for me. I like the OS, but this is the >show stopper for >> me. >> >> -eric >> >> On Jul 6, 2013, at 5:49 PM, Alexander Hall wrote: >> >>>> >>> >>> Letting the installer redirect the console to com0 does not cut >it? What >> hardware are we talking about? >>> >>> /Alexander
