From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Mar 30 23: 6:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9392537B90E for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:06:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA66482; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:06:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38E44E87.D4DF7545@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:06:47 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: matt@msg.ucsf.edu Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console friendly motherboard/BIOS ? References: <20000310171326.E4562@mello.ucsf.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org matt@msg.ucsf.edu wrote: > > originally i thought i would get a PC Weasel to turn my FreeBSD server > into something i could >really< manage from the console. (PC Weasel info > is at http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html). for those who don't know > about this product, it's a card which allows you to see pre-boot messages > from a remote console. i saw it mentioned on slasdhot earlier this week. > > i then heard that some motherboard/BIOS combinations do this too. since i > need to upgrade my machine anyhow, i can kill 2 birds with one stone by > getting such a system and skipping the Weasel. can anyone suggest a > motherboard/BIOS that does this? The Intel L440GX allows you to configure the BIOS settings over the serial console. Someone said that they are phasing this board out though. :-/ Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message