Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:08:58 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: `Serial connectivity' with something other than sio*? Message-ID: <447i6r4lgl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <C48FBD1E-90F3-4C86-8AFE-E28E8C2E4A69@gmail.com> (Garrett Cooper's message of "Mon\, 24 Nov 2008 20\:35\:42 -0800") References: <C48FBD1E-90F3-4C86-8AFE-E28E8C2E4A69@gmail.com>
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Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> writes: > Hi guys, > With more motherboard vendors venturing away from RS232 serial > ports to firewire, I was wondering if anyone has ever configured > either a firewire or usb to serial / usb adapter between two machines > to emulate a serial console. This is a question I'd like to get an > answer to so I can start working on a means to indirectly access > boxes for the FreeBSD project to avoid the kludginess of manually > testing things, or at least manually power cycling devices and > booting targets, whenever possible. The chapter I'm referring to in > the handbook is: > <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html >>. There's dcons(4). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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