Tom Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Christian Baer > <[email protected]> wrote: > > A serial console is easy enough to set up on a Sun for example, but in > > this case, I am running a simple AthlonXP, which has nothing for that > > sort of help. I would need a special card for that and those cose quite > > a bit. :-( > > Not that special - you just need a serial port on two computers. If > your computers don't have serial ports, USB serial adapters work fine,
While it should work up to a point, a USB serial port is not the ideal choice for a console port (on the machine that is crashing), because it requires the USB stack to be working. If that machine has no built-in serial port, but has an available PCI slot, adding a PCI serial port is likely the best choice. > and are cheap, as are (single port) PCI serial cards. > > Alternatively, if both computers have firewire ports, you can use > dcons, and all you need is a cable. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
