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