Re: USB Console?

2007-11-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerahmy Pocott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if there is any way to put the console on a USB port? Since serial and parallel ports are becoming things of the past and many systems don't come with them any more.. Serial console on USB? I think it should work okay with a USB

Re: USB Console?

2007-11-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: I was wondering if there is any way to put the console on a USB port? Since serial and parallel ports are becoming things of the past and many systems don't come with them any more.. Serial console on USB? The boot console? Probably not. Logging

USB Console?

2007-11-09 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, Firstly sorry for my recent double post mx1.freebsd.org was rejecting my mail for some reason.. I was wondering if there is any way to put the console on a USB port? Since serial and parallel ports are becoming things of the past and many systems don't come with them any more.. Serial

Re: USB Console?

2007-11-09 Thread Jack Barnett
Jerahmy Pocott wrote: Hello, Firstly sorry for my recent double post mx1.freebsd.org was rejecting my mail for some reason.. I was wondering if there is any way to put the console on a USB port? Since serial and parallel ports are becoming things of the past and many systems don't come with

Re: USB console or other alternatives

2007-04-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm one of these guys running FreeBSD 4.11 on very old hardware (a Pentium 166, specifically), and I want to upgrade to FreeBSD 6 or 7 soon but with new hardware. Being blind, I need to use something other than the video card for a console. I've been using

Re: USB console or other alternatives

2007-04-26 Thread Doug Lee
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:14:26AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm one of these guys running FreeBSD 4.11 on very old hardware (a Pentium 166, specifically), and I want to upgrade to FreeBSD 6 or 7 soon but with new hardware. Being blind, I need to use

Re: USB console or other alternatives

2007-04-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:14:26AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can modern hardware and a modern FreeBSD version provide console access before the kernel loads via USB or via anything other than an actual on-board or

Re: USB console or other alternatives

2007-04-26 Thread Doug Lee
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 04:24:23PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:14:26AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: What do you hook up to that serial port, anyway? A desktop Windows machine with a serial port, until said machine suddenly

USB console or other alternatives

2007-04-25 Thread Doug Lee
I'm one of these guys running FreeBSD 4.11 on very old hardware (a Pentium 166, specifically), and I want to upgrade to FreeBSD 6 or 7 soon but with new hardware. Being blind, I need to use something other than the video card for a console. I've been using a serial console for a long time, but

Re: usb console

2005-04-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
, in fact the syscons is just a kind of serial emulation. Traditionally all consoles were serial terminals. You can use USB-Serial cables if you don't have enough serial ports, but there's no USB-USB console. But there is dcons, a simple console over firewire! -Harry everything, able to do

usb console

2005-04-07 Thread Gert Cuykens
Is it possible to do the console thingie not with a null modem serial cable but with a usb cable ? When you do the serial console, it means that you have a screen like it was the other pc's screen, right ? With boot messages and everything, able to do whatever you want like your keybord and

USB-console?

2003-09-19 Thread Daniel Johansson
to the computer. So what I was thinking about was if there exists or is plans on developing USB-console or anything similar. Consoleaccess over USB. Sure would be very handy and cool but maby that is not possible/wantable to do? -- Daniel Johansson - [EMAIL PROTECTED