From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 16 02:22:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E7116A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:22:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FCBF43D1D for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:22:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296753D34 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:22:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:22:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <40F7039D.3304.DFAF558@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Subject: Serial console on a ThinkPad? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:22:22 -0000 To help diagnose these APAPI problems with the CDRW, I'm going to setup a serial console on my IBM ThinkPad T41. However, there is no serial port. Well, none that I can see. There is no traditional DB9 plug. The specs for the laptop say "Serial Port Type 2 (USB 2.0)". I don't know how to hook that up to the serial port on another system. I have heard of USB-serial adaptors. Is this an option? Ideas/suggestions. Thanks. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/