Serial console on a ThinkPad?

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:14:14AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> I had a look at this.  I have an overview of how to do it (manual 
> pages dcons(4), dconschat(8) and possibly a few others linked from 
> those).  But the problem is hardware.  None of my computers have 
> firewire.  That means buying two firewire cards.  That's about $225 
> minimum (including the taxes and the cable).

I paid the equivalent of USB $20 for both my NEC-based PCI and CardBus
firewire cards... including cables, and taxes, here in .uk.

BMS