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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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