Joerg Zinke wrote > I already searched the list archives and looked at WRAP and Soekris, > but it seems that they do not match my requirements: > [[...]] > - vga-output (because I have no other machine with a serial port to do > the installation)
USB-to-serial converters are widely available, cheap, and work fine. I bought one for UK Pounds 12.45 from http://www.usbnow.co.uk/p47/USB_2.0_to_RS232_Adaptor_+_1M_Cable/product_info.html talk to the serial port. The blather on that web site says "Uses the highly regarded FTDI Chipset", and indeed uftdi(4) supports it just fine on my laptop (which has USB but no serial ports). I use tip(1) to talk to the serial port. The only gotcha to beware of when buying these things is that there seem to be even cheaper USB-to-serial converters around which are pure software, using "bit twiddling" to wiggle the serial-port lines. These come with Windoze drivers, and aren't going to work on OpenBSD. The way to spot them is that they say "works with Windoze XXX", and don't mention macs or linux systems. ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- quote by Freire / poster by Oxfam
