From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 19:08:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCB416A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:08:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFED943D2F for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:08:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7FBDD385FD; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 23:03:51 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D02C3653C; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 23:03:51 -0400 (AST) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 23:03:51 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Richard Coleman In-Reply-To: <40225A27.7030208@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20040205230120.F4449@ganymede.hub.org> References: <40225A27.7030208@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for remote console access card that works with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 03:08:39 -0000 On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Richard Coleman wrote: > I know that AMI makes such cards (MegaRAC G2), but I don't know if they > will work with FreeBSD. I checked the hardware compatibility list on > the web site, but there was no mention of such cards. Yowch, $600?? Nifty card though ... from checking the web site, it *looks* like it primarily acts as the equivalent as a video card, no? In fact, the photo on the web site seems to show a VGA connector on the card too? So unless you are looking at X, I can't see why it wouldn't work ... But ... depending on how many servers you are using, have you looked into the remote KVM-over-IPs you can pick up? They seem to be alot cheaper, but only if you are dealing with multi-servers remotely ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664