From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 02:02:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DCB7106567C for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 02:02:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D9458FC15 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 02:02:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.43]) by QMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id BtcA1a0030vp7WLA822XqU; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:02:31 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.253.227]) by OMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id C22W1a00F4v8bD78R22WLe; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:02:31 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=FzYFlaM07XMdMwFiSEYA:9 a=e2KsFPZV6JIFgBceSFi9cwH8LjoA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 43A5C17B84E; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 19:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 19:02:30 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Daniel O'Connor Message-ID: <20080908020230.GA54841@icarus.home.lan> References: <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20080905092633.GA53234@icarus.home.lan> <20080906034327.GA74236@icarus.home.lan> <200809081127.14069.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200809081127.14069.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Pyun YongHyeon , Peter Jeremy , Dan Allen , Gavin Atkinson , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:02:32 -0000 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 |