Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:08:25 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial console on a ThinkPad? Message-ID: <40F78CF9.893.1013904F@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040716090405.GA67041@eddie.nitro.dk> References: <40F7039D.3304.DFAF558@localhost>
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On 16 Jul 2004 at 11:04, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > One posibility is Firewire - I used that successfully for a console for > debugging a problem on my ThinkPad R40 some time ago. That just > requires another computer with Firewire and a Firewire cable. Someone else suggested Firewire. The T41 does not have a Firewire port. Someone suggested buying a Firewire cardbus and trying that. I'm looking around at hardware now. > Robert Watson posted some Ethercons patches to freebsd-current (AFAIR) > to get a console over Ethernet. That might be an option, but I'm not > sure since I haven't looked more closely at the patches. I read about that last night. I concluded it didn't give any debugging abilities. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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