From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 11 22:22:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBF016A41C for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:22:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pinhead@bluebook.stderror.at) Received: from stdin.stderror.at (stdin.stderror.at [83.65.196.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC5E43D49 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:22:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pinhead@bluebook.stderror.at) Received: from bluebook.stderror.at (83-65-196-92.work.xdsl-line.inode.at [83.65.196.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by stdin.stderror.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A2FA181; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:22:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bluebook.stderror.at (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bluebook.stderror.at (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6BMMs4k016912; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:22:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pinhead@bluebook.stderror.at) Received: (from pinhead@localhost) by bluebook.stderror.at (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j6BMMp35016911; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:22:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pinhead) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:22:51 +0200 From: Toni Schmidbauer To: Steve Brown Message-ID: <20050711222251.GA16877@stderror.at> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Brown , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050703181714.GA3060@glycine.annular.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050703181714.GA3060@glycine.annular.org> Phone: +43 664 3502198 X-WWW-Home-Page: http://stderror.at X-PGP-Fingerprint: 53F2 28AE 8070 83E0 AFEC 0ABC BBF9 A34A 3ED1 3287 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD User-Agent: mutt-ng devel (FreeBSD) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial console capable BIOSes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: toni@stderror.at List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:22:56 -0000 On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 11:17:14AM -0700, Steve Brown wrote: > Does anyone have recommendations for motherboards (P3 or P4) with good > BIOS serial console support that plays nicely with FreeBSD running a > serial console on the same port? Basically, I'd like to monitor the > pre-BSD boot process and the BSD boot process from a terminal window on > another machine. we are using a sun v20z, which work's nice with 5.x. it's a rebranded newisys maschine and serial over lan works like charm. hth, toni -- Wer es einmal so weit gebracht hat, dass er nicht | toni at stderror dot at mehr irrt, der hat auch zu arbeiten aufgehoert | Toni Schmidbauer -- Max Planck |