Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:06:36 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de, tevans.uk@googlemail.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crashes with Promise controller Message-ID: <4e0ec37c.K0c%2BwL6t2YIr09OD%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin0fOYa5oVrtELvH%2BF9-YuCYhY%2BVA@mail.gmail.com> References: <it56el$tqa$1@dough.gmane.org> <52F39CE0-EEC7-4180-8186-BF8696AF279D@lassitu.de> <iuibu0$oi0$1@dough.gmane.org> <BANLkTin0fOYa5oVrtELvH%2BF9-YuCYhY%2BVA@mail.gmail.com>
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Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Christian Baer > <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> wrote: > > A serial console is easy enough to set up on a Sun for example, but in > > this case, I am running a simple AthlonXP, which has nothing for that > > sort of help. I would need a special card for that and those cose quite > > a bit. :-( > > Not that special - you just need a serial port on two computers. If > your computers don't have serial ports, USB serial adapters work fine, While it should work up to a point, a USB serial port is not the ideal choice for a console port (on the machine that is crashing), because it requires the USB stack to be working. If that machine has no built-in serial port, but has an available PCI slot, adding a PCI serial port is likely the best choice. > and are cheap, as are (single port) PCI serial cards. > > Alternatively, if both computers have firewire ports, you can use > dcons, and all you need is a cable.
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