From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 22 13:48:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from otto.oss.uswest.net (otto.oss.uswest.net [204.147.85.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BAC114C29 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:48:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pmckenna@otto.oss.uswest.net) Received: (from pmckenna@localhost) by otto.oss.uswest.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) id PAA28459; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:46:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from pmckenna) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199904221642.MAA08575@stiegl.niksun.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:46:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Pete Mckenna To: Andrew Heybey Subject: RE: SMP nerd toy report Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes Compaq has something called IRC on it's 1600 servers and probably others Also Intel's N440BX and L440GX MB's are supposed to do this. I haven't been able to get the Intel working yet but am getting some different hardware tomorrow. We use it for the remote access ability to toggle floppies etc. It's nice when it works. On 22-Apr-99 Andrew Heybey wrote: > One random question: has anyone ever seen a BIOS that works over a > serial line? I'm perfectly happy with a serial console except that I > have to drag the system within reach of a monitor if I want to change > something in the BIOS. Plus I have to waste a slot for a video card > unless I also want to install that everytime I want to poke around in > the BIOS. > ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Pete Mckenna Date: 22-Apr-99 Time: 15:39:47 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message