From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 10 17:12:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mello.ucsf.edu (mello.ucsf.edu [128.218.69.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF1ED37BB61 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:12:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@msg.ucsf.edu) Received: (qmail 6143 invoked by uid 391); 11 Mar 2000 01:13:26 -0000 From: matt@msg.ucsf.edu Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:13:26 -0800 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: console friendly motherboard/BIOS ? Message-ID: <20000310171326.E4562@mello.ucsf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i X-PureVoice: Voicemail welcome. http://www.eudora.com/purevoice Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org originally i thought i would get a PC Weasel to turn my FreeBSD server into something i could >really< manage from the console. (PC Weasel info is at http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html). for those who don't know about this product, it's a card which allows you to see pre-boot messages from a remote console. i saw it mentioned on slasdhot earlier this week. i then heard that some motherboard/BIOS combinations do this too. since i need to upgrade my machine anyhow, i can kill 2 birds with one stone by getting such a system and skipping the Weasel. can anyone suggest a motherboard/BIOS that does this? i'm not picky about the CPU, any current models would likely be plenty fast. ultimately i'll connect this into a yet-to-be-purchased terminal server which will manage my whole machine room. ---matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message