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Date:      Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:08:25 -0400
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Serial console on a ThinkPad?
Message-ID:  <40F78CF9.893.1013904F@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20040716090405.GA67041@eddie.nitro.dk>
References:  <40F7039D.3304.DFAF558@localhost>

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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.
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/



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