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Hi,

Your board has a serial port:

> [stuff deleted]
> /var/run/dmesg.boot:
>=20
> Copyright (c) 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, =
1994
> 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights =
reserved.
> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #7: Mon Nov 15 15:09:08 EST 2010
>    root@johnny.reilly.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU         530  @ 2.93GHz (2933.46-MHz =
K8-class CPU)
>  Origin =3D "GenuineIntel"  Id =3D 0x20652  Family =3D 6  Model =3D 25 =
 Stepping =3D 2
>  =
Features=3D0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE=
,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>  =
Features2=3D0x98e3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PD=
CM,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT>
>  AMD Features=3D0x28100800<SYSCALL,NX,RDTSCP,LM>
>  AMD Features2=3D0x1<LAHF>
>  TSC: P-state invariant
> real memory  =3D 4294967296 (4096 MB)
> avail memory =3D 3894886400 (3714 MB)
> ACPI APIC Table: <INTEL  DH57JG  >

[...more stuff deleted...]

> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on =
acpi0
> uart0: [FILTER]
[etc]

The diagram on page 12 of =
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/18702/eng/DH57JG_ProductGuide03_English.pd=
f
shows the connector (labelled R).

--
Bob Bishop
rb@gid.co.uk