Serial console on a ThinkPad?

Dan Langille dan at langille.org
Fri Jul 16 05:08:26 PDT 2004


On 16 Jul 2004 at 11:04, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

> One posibility is Firewire - I used that successfully for a console for
> debugging a problem on my ThinkPad R40 some time ago.  That just
> requires another computer with Firewire and a Firewire cable.

Someone else suggested Firewire.  The T41 does not have a Firewire 
port.  Someone suggested buying a Firewire cardbus and trying that. 
I'm looking around at hardware now.

> Robert Watson posted some Ethercons patches to freebsd-current (AFAIR)
> to get a console over Ethernet.  That might be an option, but I'm not
> sure since I haven't looked more closely at the patches.

I read about that last night.  I concluded it didn't give any 
debugging abilities.
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