Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:02:58 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Przemyslaw Frasunek <przemyslaw@frasunek.com> Subject: Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf Message-ID: <BANLkTimUk7LLhqOK7z3h5wpQCyMz-VwwFA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110412204955.GA31582@icarus.home.lan> References: <4DA4A96F.9000507@frasunek.com> <20110412204955.GA31582@icarus.home.lan>
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> wrote: > P.S. -- What's "BMC" stand for? Baseband Management Controller. It's the separate NIC (sometimes it's piggy-backed on a NIC) used for remote management of motherboards. Usually includes IPMI support. Depending on the motherboard, it may even include support for keyboard/video/mouse redirection and serial-over-lan and all that other remote management stuff. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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