Brian Buhrow wrote: > Hello. I'm thinking of notebooks. Yes, they have screens and > keyboards, but those are not always usable and, having a serial console > over USB could let someone install to a notebook remotely. > Also, I've encountered some Intel based appliance boards that don't have > easily > used serial ports on them. When they're installed in cramped wiring > closets, it's much easier to get a USB serial port on them than it is to > get a screen and keyboard.
It's not just laptops and appliance boards - even ATX sized PC motherboards have been made with no com ports for a long time, for example the Intel DH67CL from 2011. The specifications at https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/50101/intel-desktop-board-dh67cl.html say # of Serial Ports: 0 Serial Port via Internal Header: No and when booting NetBSD on one, the dmesg output contains no "com" entry. -- Andreas Gustafsson, [email protected]
