Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:03:33 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How? Message-ID: <20041119165657.C878@ganymede.hub.org>
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I just picked up a PM25 for our colo facility, so that I can do remote admin on the FreeBSD boxes ... our two Tyan servers are a piece of cake, as they have DB9 Serial, like I'd expect ... but the Intel motherboards have "External RJ45 serial, internal serial header" on all of there boards, from what I can tell ... but what I can't figure out is how to make use of them ... The servers are remote, so adding a 9pin serial port onto the 'internal header' is a bit difficult, so am wondering about using the 'external RJ45'. The PM25 cables end in an RJ45 jack, and we had to purchase adapters to go from RJ45->9pin ... can those RJ45 adapters be used to plug into the RJ45 serial directly? Also, from what I've been able to read so far, the RJ45 == Serial B, not Serial A ... so, I'd need to change how FreeBSD works as far as serial console is concerned, to look at Serial B, no? Help? Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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