On 2012-05-30, Chris Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a feeling that the serial console, the only way to configure a > Soekris, > is very 1970s. Admittedly it is quite reliable, but slow, fiddly, most modern > computers don't even have a serial port any more, and I've found > USB-to-serial > converters quite unreliable, with dropped characters causing issues using the > terminal and boot menu.
Sounds like you have bad USB-to-RS232 converters, I and many others find serial console access highly reliable and simple, even via USB, fast enough for the purpose, and (as a big advantage over ethernet-based access) it is unaffected by NIC firmware crashes etc. This is especially useful on machine likes these where the serial port can be used to forcibly reset the power supply (+++ POWER) which can clear the majority of such problems that might be encountered. > I've found it useful to connect a Wiznet serial-to-LAN gateway to in-school > servers, to allow remote access to the serial console even if the machine is > misbehaving. However this is pretty ugly to look at, and fragile. I guess ugliness/fragility would depend on what enclosure you use... _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
