Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 19:02:30 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware Message-ID: <20080908020230.GA54841@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <200809081127.14069.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20080905092633.GA53234@icarus.home.lan> <20080906034327.GA74236@icarus.home.lan> <200809081127.14069.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:27:11AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Ironically, I just bought an Inspiron 1525 for a friend of mine's son > > as a birthday gift, so I do have access to one indirectly, and can > > probably borrow it for a day or two if need be. It lacks a serial > > port, so I'd have to buy a USB serial adapter for serial console if > > remote console was needed. > > Just FYI.. This won't work. > You need a 'real' serial port for console, the other option would be to > use Firewire (if the laptop has it). Ah, now that I think about it, I see why it won't work... good catch. I didn't think it all the way through. :-) Firewire is an alternative which won't work for a different reason: none of my BSD machines at home have support for Firewire. Bummer. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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