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From: Paul de Weerd <weerd@...>
To: Craig Skinner <craig.skinner@...>
Cc: misc <misc@...>
Subject: Re: serial port usage
Date: Friday, September 14, 2007 - 6:36 am

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:16:46AM +0100, Craig Skinner wrote:

| Henning Brauer wrote:

| >there are multiport usb-serial adapters. and of course you can use

| >multiple of them.

| >

|

| This may be really really stupid, but for Mac minis that have no serial

| ports listed in their dmesg (e.g:

| http://erdelynet.com/tech/openbsd/openbsd-on-intel-mac-mini/) could you

| use a USB-Serial adapter and place that directive in /etc/boot.conf to

| redirect the console output? Nowt about that in boot.conf's man page:

|

| set [varname [value]]

| ..

| ..

|             tty      Active console device name (e.g., com0, com1, pc0).

|


I'm afraid not. It must be a "real" serial port, supported by the BIOS

and all that stuff. You can run a getty on a USB->serial adapter, but

console must be the real thing.


Cheers,


Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd


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Re: serial port usage, Craig Skinner, (Fri Sep 14, 5:04 am)
Re: serial port usage, Craig Skinner, (Thu Sep 20, 3:35 am)
Re: serial port usage, Greg Thomas, (Fri Sep 14, 1:03 pm)
Re: serial port usage, Craig Skinner, (Fri Sep 14, 3:47 pm)
Re: serial port usage, Raimo Niskanen, (Fri Sep 14, 3:40 am)
Re: serial port usage, Stuart Henderson, (Fri Sep 14, 4:13 am)
Re: serial port usage, Jason McIntyre, (Fri Sep 14, 4:05 am)
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Re: serial port usage, Nick Holland, (Fri Sep 14, 12:37 am)
Re: serial port usage, Daniel Ouellet, (Fri Sep 14, 12:56 am)
Re: serial port usage, Henning Brauer, (Fri Sep 14, 3:46 am)
Re: serial port usage, Craig Skinner, (Fri Sep 14, 6:16 am)
Re: serial port usage, Paul de Weerd, (Fri Sep 14, 6:36 am)
Re: serial port usage, Craig Skinner, (Fri Sep 14, 7:38 am)